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Slightly Bad Sight

Bad Sight is tough on a PC. It’s a -25 point disadvantage and carries some serious ouch to it in either nearsighted or farsighted varieties. What if you want to have just slightly bad vision? Fairly easy: just make it leveled. I’m going to tweak point cost a bit as well. Nearsighted (-3 per level)…

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Camouflage: Unformed idea

Technically I’m sorta stealing this from the SJ Forums user Kallatari, but not exactly. There’s a thread that just cropped up on the Camouflage skill and the distinction between Camouflage and Stealth. This is an old discussion, but still mostly unresolved. Maybe a successful Camouflage roll subtracts from the bonus you get for being In Plain…

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A Quick Glance

A while back, I posited that pretty good results can be obtained by assuming that the Vision bonus for “in plain sight,” that is, +10, applies fairly generically. Certainly it’s a good starting point to see what you can see. But what constitutes a basic roll? A Vision+10 roll for Joe Average will spot something man-sized…