RUNNING PERCEPTION
Consider the Adventurers' Awareness or perceptions using a common, simple model of the senses.
☐ Sight
Is vision obscured or enhanced?
☐ Sound
Is hearing prevented by environmental noises or headgear?
☐ Smell
Is the sense of smell overpowered or blocked?
Does a smell trigger a memory?
☐ Touch
Is it warm or cool?
Is it still or vibrating?
Is it pressing gently or sharply?
Is it pressing lightly or hard?
☐ Taste
Is it salty? sweet? bitter?
What sense of smell could associate as well?
☐ “Sixth” Sense
How does the situation make the Adventurer “feel”?
For greater variety, include some of the dozens of additional, less commonly-considered senses, such as a “sense of hunger.”
Awareness Skills
☐ Animal Handling
Awareness extends to empathy and judgement of an animal's current state.
☐ Espionage
Awareness can engage multiple senses depending on the Espionage task at hand.
☐ Fishing
Awareness of the particular body of water, the habits of the local wildlife, and fish habits as well as patient watching.
☐ Forward Observer
Awareness combined with Ingenuity to spot and report troop movements, as well as of the prevailing conditions for calling artillery missions and more.
☐ Gambling
Awareness helps judge the “tics” and state of the gambler's opponents, but does not help when gambling against machinery.
☐ Horsemanship
Awareness of the horse temperament as a specialized form of Animal Handling which can affect working with the horse to resolve specific rider tasks.
☐ Hunting
Awareness of the terrain, prevailing weather or conditions, seasonal vagaries, and much more supports the ability to successfully find, trap, stalk, or hunt wildlife.
☐ Investigation
Awareness of the situation or the “hunches” felt when questioning someone drive successful investigations.
☐ Listen
Awareness focused on hearing and possibly Willpower to quieten the mind to truly hear what may be there.
☐ Photography
Awareness of the subject and its surrounding and situation help capture the best images.
☐ Prospecting
Awareness, especially “reading the land” can make all the difference between a successful hunt for resources and a dry well.
☐ Reading (Lips)
Awareness of the nuances of speech, combined with ability to focus without distraction on the speaker can enhance this already useful still.
☐ Scouting (include Reconnaissance)
Awareness hones the scouts' ability to observe, gather, and report the important details of an area of interest.
☐ Searching
Awareness improves the ability to methodically explore an area for hidden details.
☐ Sense Motives
Awareness can provide insight into the possible hidden agendas behind seemingly innocent conversation or actions.
☐ Sneaking (Stealth)
Awareness of the surroundings and their personal situation within them enables an Adventurer to pass through an area with less chance of detection.
☐ Sniping
Awareness of prevailing conditions and a subject's movements allow a sniper to choose the opportune method and moment to strike most effectively.
☐ Spotting
Like Forward Observer, Awareness drives the spotter's ability to accurately pick out the points of interest, monitor them, and report accordingly.
☐ Streetwise
Awareness of surroundings and the background of an area can avoid trouble or enable opportunities that others could miss.
☐ Surveillance (includes Shadowing)
Awareness focused on a specific subject allows gathering additional detail and clues.
☐ Surveying
Awareness helps more accurately collect and gather the details and relationships of a measured area.
☐ Tracking (Animal)
Awareness of the terrain, surroundings, food, water, and other details important to an animal help an Adventurer track down that type of animal.