Lifesense

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  • Range: varies (typically 30 to 300 feet)
  • Requires Line of Sight? No
  • Requires Line of Effect? No
  • Usable for Combat Targeting? Yes, but targeted creatures have partial concealment (automatically miss on a natural result of a 6 or less on the d20)
  • Bonus/Penalty vs. Stealth? Perception check with a +5 circumstance bonus. If successful, targeted creatures have partial concealment (automatically miss on a natural result of a 6 or less on the d20)
  • Ignores Invisibility? Yes


Description: A creature with lifesense can feel a living target's presence via some mysterious extra-sensory perception. Lifesense does not require line of sight or line of effect. Any non-stealthed creature within range is detected.

The creature with lifesense must make a perception check to detect stealthed creatures within range, but gains a +5 circumstance bonus to its perception. The DC of the perception check is equal to the stealthing creature's stealth check result. Invisibility does not provide any benefits to stealth against creatures with lifesense.

Creatures detected by lifesense have concealment (automatically miss on a natural result of a 6 or less on the d20). Undead creatures, constructs and other entities which are not explicitly alive are not detectable with lifesense.

Lifesense does not provide any knowledge of a detected creature other than its location and whether nor not it is familiar. However, it allows the detecting creature to make lore checks against unfamiliar creatures, and recognize individuals it has previously encountered.

A creature with lifesense may also use the Survival skill to follow living creatures by their essence, making a Survival check to find or follow a track. The typical DC for a fresh trail is 10. The DC increases or decreases depending on the number of creatures being tracked and the age of the trail. For each hour that the trail is cold, the DC increases by 2. The ability otherwise follows the rules for the Survival skill in regards to tracking. Creatures tracking by lifesense ignore the effects of surface conditions and poor visibility.