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Celjabba · 01-05-2018, 05:30 AM

You can use Discriminatory smell in water, and therefore tracking ? (Discriminatory taste as written don't allow tracking ?)

By RAW, taste is contact, smell is range-based. Making taste range-based in water may perhaps make sense (no idea), but I don't think it is in the rules.
Important for anything that is dangerous upon contact.

Taste (for human) is limited to a few specific tastes, smell is much more broad-spectre.

01-05-2018, 05:30 AM	#2
Celjabba Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Luxembourg	Re: [Enhanced Senses] What does Universal Smell ACTUALLY give, game-mechanically? You can use Discriminatory smell in water, and therefore tracking ? (Discriminatory taste as written don't allow tracking ?) By RAW, taste is contact, smell is range-based. Making taste range-based in water may perhaps make sense (no idea), but I don't think it is in the rules. Important for anything that is dangerous upon contact. Taste (for human) is limited to a few specific tastes, smell is much more broad-spectre.