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A character with Heightened Senses has one or more senses that have been sharpened to a superhuman level of acuity. It can represent either the preternatural sharpening of a specific sense honed by special training (such as a blind person’s trained sense of touch) or the enhanced senses of a paranormal, magical, or technologically augmented character. For each Level of the Heightened Senses Attribute, one of the character’s five physical senses – hearing, sight, smell, taste, or touch – is enhanced, and can operate over an area of several city blocks. The character may assign the same sense twice, which doubles the effect and extends the area of detection.

Alternatively, a Heightened Sense can indicate enhancement in scope and precision instead of distance (such as the greater frequency range and pinpoint accuracy of a cat’s hearing). A character using a Heightened Sense gains a minor edge (page 182) on Stat rolls that relate to using that sense to perceive things that someone with human-level senses might conceivably notice. The Heightened Awareness Attribute (page 97) allows for a lower Level of enhancement for all of a character’s senses while the Sixth Sense (page 119) and Supersense (page 123) Attributes allow characters to gain completely new senses.

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