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Old 04-23-2017, 12:47 PM   #16
Anthony
 
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Berkeley, CA
Default Re: [Basic] Advantage of the Week (#40): Discriminatory Senses, Sensitive Touch

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Originally Posted by whswhs View Post
My view is that Hyperspectral Vision isn't actually comparable to the others, and that there isn't a place for a visual sense that is, because human sight is already discriminatory.
Well, enhanced color perception is a thing (and reasonably describes real-world hyperspectral imaging, though that's not the same thing as GURPS hyperspectral vision). In general, though, I'm not sure that any discriminatory senses should exist, and instead they should be split into a combination of acute senses and something like:
Detect (based on another sense): your detect is based on another sense. You cannot roll the detect directly; instead, when you detect something with the other sense, you also know whether it contains the specified substance and may analyze it.
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