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09-30-2012, 01:55 PM | #22 |
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Re: Hearing & Distinguishing Specific Heartbeats
Normal traffic is on the Basic Set table at 16 yards (p358), which is dB(A) 100, "Air gun, firearm firing "Silent" ammo, revving gas engine" in High Tech.
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Thanks! That's perfect. I'm a little surprised the book requires only 2 yards distance though. Seems a bit too far away, even after the +4 to hearing rolls that Discriminatory Hearing provides. It's also not clear if 2 yards is for someone with a total Hearing of 14 (base Per 10 with the +4 bonus)... I'd assume this would be need to be at a closer range if your Per was lower, and that the allowed range would be greater with higher Per or extra levels of Acute Hearing. That's how I'd play it anyway.
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Re: Hearing & Distinguishing Specific Heartbeats
I think greater/shorter range for the hearing-based empathy would simply be based on if you took Increased Range enhancements on it or not, that's certainly how I'd do it for Discriminatory Smell with Emotion Sense.
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10-05-2012, 10:04 AM | #26 |
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Heh, yeah, I share your doubts. I routinely hear the exact details of people's conversations through both a thin door and at about 16 yards distance, often whilst I'm playing a video on my PC at a low volume. Still, that not might be average. With no noise, and with them in the same room, and with the only requirement being that you actually just hear that there is a conversation (without hearing the details)... hearing this at 16 yards away seems like it should have significantly better that 50/50 odds for human average Hearing 10. Then, again, I'm no expert on the statistical performance of human hearing tasks, and my own experiences may not be typical.
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Re: Hearing & Distinguishing Specific Heartbeats
Sound propagation is complicated, and the GURPS rules on it are a rather crude approximation.
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