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Originally Posted by vicky_molokh
That seems like an old ad hoc ruling, and here's why:
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Originally Posted by GURPS Social Engineering, 44
Discriminatory Smell, with the Emotion Sense enhance-ment (p. B49), gives the same benefits as Empathy, but only
when within 2 yards of the subject.
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Emphasis mine. That indicates that while DS(+ES) is limited to a 2-yard range (which seems slightly more than typical touch range for humans anyway), Empathy isn't. |
Note that that bit in Social Engineering is just a verbatim quote from Basic. The two yard limit on DS-based Empathy seems like it should be less of a factor than the implied Sense-Based limiter, but DS + Empathy would cost 30, while the enhanced DS is just 23, meaning that you're getting the benefits of Empathy with a -50% rider. Sense-Based would account for -20% of that, meaning that the range and the disadvantageous link to DS must make up the other -30%.