Re: Need help with Enhanced Senses and Megascale
Don't get hanged up on the Radio Group part...every example of a detect "device" that I have seen in other Hero products (spacers toolkit, star hero, gadets and gear, terrain empire, dark champions, heck even sharper than a serpants tooth, etc.) was built with the radio group, therefore I am following the lemmings and building mine as the radio group.
I also understand that some of you don't like the MegaScale rules, and some of you don't like sardine flavored bubble gum, thats not what I am in need of understanding.
I guess what I am asking for is a better understanding of what sense modifiers apply to which sense group? For example, Sight is Targeting, that is specifically written in the rules, Hearing is 360 and Discriminatory, Smell is 360, Touch is no range, 360, with limited discriminatory. No bones about this, its specifically written in the rules and applicable. Now, is the sight group ranged? Common Sense says 'yes', is it discriminatory? again common sense says 'yes' because if you see two friends, you can usually discriminate which on is Harry and which one is Moe (not worrying about range, contrast, etc. just talking in general here) but its not in the rules, so when do I allow common sense to rule and when do I refer to the rule book? The radio group is 360 with the specific exclusion of radar..but is it ranged?
I simply do not seem to be able to wrap my Hero-Fu around which modifiers are common sense for a Sense, and which ones are adders, they all sortof mush together into a giant toilet bowl of 'Depends'.
what I am building is a Detect Heat Patterns/Traces..now I could have just wrote it up as a Detect Heat Patterns/Traces [5 points], Discriminatory, Analyze, Increased Arc of Perception (360 Degrees, Targeting, Tracking, Passive, etc. etc. but since the book already defines Detect Heat Patterns/ Traces as IR Perception I went with that. Than I made the mistake of putting to much thought into the power and painted myself into a cornor. Since its the Radio group/Radar sense, I muddled the water with wondering do I really need the 360 degree perception, since its part of the radio group, short answer is no, via the Simulated Sense Rule, long answer yes, because I am specifically thinking of the Radar sense of the radio group which is 240, but, radar is targeting, so now I leave 360, but can removed targeting. Is it ranged? Should be, the rules dont say anything about radio or radar being ranged, but common sense says yes, and I think we all agree Common Sense trumps Rules since the Hero System cannot possbile write a specific rule for everything in the universe.
I ramble..time to go outside and play in the sun.