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Old 07-15-2010, 05:14 AM   #16
chris1982
 
Join Date: Nov 2006
Default Re: How realistic is Night Vision?

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Originally Posted by Anthony View Post
Yes. The major reason you buy night vision isn't to boost your vision roll at night, it's to eliminate the combat/DX penalty, and acute vision doesn't do that.
Yes, in GURPS RAW Nightvision is a killer. You get penalties of -3 or so really fast - when fighting in the night with torches -7 or so is not unreasonable. Any char with NV will destroy enemies with way higher combat skill at the cost of 1 point/level...
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