From: | shadowrn@*********.com (James Zealey) |
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Subject: | Aura Reading (was SR3 Skills, especially Athletics) |
Date: | Thu Oct 18 01:20:01 2001 |
> for assensing," or is treated in the same
> manner as other active skills,
I think the reason that aura reading is treated
the way it is is because it is identical to a
regular perception test:
For a perception test you roll intelligence,
plus the alertness specialisation of stealth.
The problem is that there is no stealth
equivalent for the astral plane, so FASA made up
a whole skill - perhaps it would be better as a
specialisation of something (or a knowledge
skill, making it cost the same as a
specialisation).
OTOH being able to get the 5+ successes on an
aura reading test is a pretty big advantage - it
lets you know how someone is feeling and the
general reason for them feeling that way, and
the only way to block it is to have access to
the masking metamagic. The ONLY factors in an
aura reading are whether there is any background
count and the amount of dice you roll.
Perhaps an alternative would be to introduce an
astral stealth skill - then the aura reading
skill would be replaced by the astral alertness
specialisation.
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