Sense

Your perception, intelligence, and mental sophistication. A higher score indicates a sharper and more powerful mind.

• Intellect: Another name for your sense control. Intellect adds damage to social attacks and affects how many languages you can learn without abilities. If you are using concepts you can spend points up to your intellect on options not offered by your concept.
• Interrogate: You initiate a contest between your sense and the suspect's convince. If you win the suspect must answer your questions truthfully. If you lose they may answer truthfully if they choose. The loser of the contest suffers 1 wits damage.
• Memory: You may check against your sense score to have your character remember something that you have forgotten. The referee may impose the obscure penalty to the check or provide the information without a check as appropriate.
• Perception: The referee may ask for a check to determine if you spot an important detail (or understand its significance). If you want to retry a failed perception check you have to take project which you are unaware and vulnerable during, but once completed you get any benefits for a successful check. You may use a snap and check perception to try to eliminate a hidden decoy or a defense to detect a surprise attack during an encounter.
• Voice: Verbal attacks use the communication skill against a target within short range and deal your voice effect regardless of whether you are flirting, insulting, debating, or so on. Voice rolls 1dE and is social, adding effect dice equal to your intellect. Blue results deal grit, and red results deal wits.
• Wits: You have wits equal to your sense score. Wits damage temporarily eliminates them. When you suffer wits damage but have no wits to lose you make a wits check. Your success margin must equal or beat the wits you couldn't lose, and if you fail you are flustered. Every 10 wits damage counts as a failed check with any remaining (including 0) forcing another check normally. If you are already flustered failing a wits check forces you out. If you are out failing a wits check usually means madness. You may recover wits in place of focus each time you earn focus during the game.

Attack	Tier	Keywords	Dice	Blue/Red
Voice		Short, Social (+dE = sense control)	1dE	Wits / Grit

Purchasing Sense

Score	Points	Control
7	0	1
8	0	1
9	0	1
10	1	2
11	1	2
12	1	2
13	2	3
14	2	3
15	2	3
16(*)	3	4

(*) Only available from a 15.

Related Abilities

• Concentrate: You start each session with an extra focus, and gain a bonus on checks that you spend a project doing.

• Disguise: Used to change your own features with makeup and accessories. Your true features count as Concealed. Drastic physical differences (including body type, gender, and species) apply a Penalty. You can attempt a limited disguise—just looking like someone else, anyone else—with as little as a minor change to clothing. More intentional transformations, or impersonating a specific individual require a Disguise Kit to even make the attempt. When you’re impersonating someone and arouse suspicion you must roll the lower Save between your Convince and your Conceal to keep up your ruse. You can roll to disguise someone else, but they suffer the Penalty on Conceal Saves if they don’t also have the Disguise Cascade.
• Notice: The Referee may ask for a Sense Save to spot an important detail—or register the significance of something you otherwise automatically perceive. Notice applies during many Encounters. This happens when foes are setting up an Ambush, and you must Save to start the Exchange normally. A success may even abort the ambush entirely—some foes won’t attack if their approach is noticed. If you potentially reveal a character’s Trait during a conversation a Good Notice Save confirms your suspicion. On a Bad roll you know you missed something, but don’t know why the Referee asked you to Save unless it becomes obvious later. You do still have a feeling, so it’s legitimate to actively probe for what you may have missed, assuming you have time to.

See Also

• Attribute
• Heart
• Strength

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