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Old 11-27-2022, 04:40 AM   #1
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Default [Psionic Powers] Vision-Based, Weaker Variant

I'm looking at building some sensory abilities, and I noticed that Psionic Powers, p. 33 has Electric Vision with the "Vision-Based, Weaker Variant, -10%" modifier.

So far I've not been able to track this modifier to a source (but it might be an original here). I'm just trying to work out what this represents compared with the general Sense-Based, Reversed, -20%.

One possibility that occurred to me was a lower limitation value because this isn't an attack. It seems like a really useful modifier for Detect so I'd like to know the intention behind it.
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Old 11-27-2022, 02:55 PM   #2
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Default Re: [Psionic Powers] Vision-Based, Weaker Variant

The example in Powers for Vision Based Detect uses the full -20%, and I can't tell what is different about Electric Vision.
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Old 11-27-2022, 03:14 PM   #3
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Default Re: [Psionic Powers] Vision-Based, Weaker Variant

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I'm looking at building some sensory abilities, and I noticed that Psionic Powers, p. 33 has Electric Vision with the "Vision-Based, Weaker Variant, -10%" modifier.

So far I've not been able to track this modifier to a source (but it might be an original here). I'm just trying to work out what this represents compared with the general Sense-Based, Reversed, -20%.
I think it's only -10% because you can see through a few inches of material. It would be remarkably useless if you couldn't, given the need to keep people away from electricity.

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Old 11-27-2022, 05:06 PM   #4
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I think it's only -10% because you can see through a few inches of material. It would be remarkable useless if you couldn't, given the need to keep people away from electricity.
Yep, that's probably it.
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Old 11-28-2022, 02:07 PM   #5
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I think it's only -10% because you can see through a few inches of material. It would be remarkably useless if you couldn't, given the need to keep people away from electricity.
Thanks John! That's a useful point.
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