Psychic Signatures

[JCurwen3]

Originally Posted by Not another shrubbery

These both sound right. The appropriate Detect at short range is already reasonably likely to notice a normal signature, so (IMO) a more easily noticed one would have to be pretty obvious to rise to the level of a minor Nuisance Effect. I'm having trouble envisioning an effect based solely on noticeability that would justify more than a -5% NE... maybe in a game where detection (using Signature Sniffer and Psi Sense) is a major theme :?

You're right - at short range. But see my post above. At 100 yards, there's a -10 penalty to standard unmodified Detect. The more levels of what I call High Psychic Signature you have on your ability, the easier it will be to detect at long range. I would think that any game where Psi Sense and Signature Sniffer are significant as psychic residue senses would justify taking -5% for each +2 to detect. Imagine the equivalent for ordinary mundane signatures - at higher signatures, things like huge flashing lights, storm clouds, thunder claps, etc. The higher the signature, the easier it will be to notice from farther away.