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Supernatural Senses

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Supernatural Senses shapes a character's supernatural focus, training, and power set.

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Supernatural Senses Powers

42 powers, grouped by tier. The rules needed for quick reference are shown directly in each row.

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Tier 0

Danger Prickle

When you roll initiative, make a DEX save against a visible hazard, or are targeted by a creature you can perceive, add 1d4 to the roll. This does not detect creatures behind total cover or outside your senses.

Action: Reaction
Use: At-Will
Range: Self
Duration: Instant
Effect: 1d4
Type: Danger Sense
Save: DEX

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Keen Sense

Choose sight, hearing, smell, taste, or touch. For the duration, add 1d4 to Perception, Investigation, or Survival checks that rely primarily on that sense.

Action: Bonus Action
Use: At-Will
Range: Self
Duration: 1 Minute
Effect: 1d4
Type: Sense / Skill

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Tier 1

Bloodhound Scent

You can distinguish individuals, materials, poisons, blood, smoke, fear, illness, and recent passage by scent. For the duration, you have advantage on Survival checks to track a creature whose scent trail is less than 24 hours old.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: Self
Duration: 1 Hour
Effect: 24 hours
Type: Scent / Tracking

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Darkvision

Your eyes adjust to darkness. For the duration, you gain darkvision out to 60 ft. If you already have darkvision, its range increases by 30 ft. You cannot see through magical darkness with this power.

Action: Bonus Action
Use: At-Will
Range: Self
Duration: 1 Hour
Effect: 60 ft.
Type: Sight

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Sensory Filter

When you would be blinded, deafened, overwhelmed by smell, dazzled, distracted by noise, or affected by sensory overload, add 1d6 to the saving throw or reduce the sensory penalty by one step until the start of your next turn.

Action: Reaction
Use: At-Will
Range: Self
Duration: Instant
Effect: 1d6
Type: Sense / Defense
Save: Varies

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Sharp Ear

For the duration, you have advantage on Perception checks based on hearing. You can isolate one conversation, footstep, heartbeat, mechanism, or repeated sound within 120 ft. if there is a physical path for sound to reach you.

Action: Bonus Action
Use: At-Will
Range: Self
Duration: 10 Minutes
Effect: 120 ft.
Type: Hearing

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Tier 2

Blind Fight

When you attack a creature you cannot see but can hear, smell, or otherwise locate, you do not have disadvantage from not seeing it until the start of your next turn. Invisible creatures do not gain advantage against you during this time if they are within 10 ft.

Action: Reaction
Use: At-Will
Range: Self
Duration: 1 Round
Effect: 10 ft.
Type: Combat Sense
Roll: Attack

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Predator's Eye

Choose one creature you can see within range. For the duration, you have advantage on Perception and Survival checks to track or notice it, and your first attack against it each round ignores half cover if you can see any part of it.

Action: Bonus Action
Use: At-Will
Range: 120 ft.
Duration: 1 Minute
Type: Sight / Tracking
Roll: Attack

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Read the Air

Study air movement, dust, scent, sound, heat, and pressure. Learn whether creatures passed through the emanation in the last hour, the direction of the strongest recent movement, and whether there is hidden airflow, an open passage, or a nearby concealed gap.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: Self (60 ft.)
Duration: Instant
Effect: 60 ft.
Type: Sense / Tracking

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Tremor Feel

Read vibration through ground, walls, floors, water, or connected surfaces. For the duration, you know the location of moving creatures touching the same surface within 30 ft. This does not detect flying, incorporeal, or perfectly still creatures.

Action: Bonus Action
Use: At-Will
Range: Self
Duration: 10 Minutes
Effect: 30 ft.
Type: Tremor Sense

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Tier 3

Blindsense

Your hearing, air-sense, scent, and spatial awareness combine. For the duration, you know the location of creatures within 10 ft. that are not behind total cover, even if blinded, invisible, or in darkness.

Action: Bonus Action
Use: At-Will
Range: Self
Duration: 10 Minutes
Effect: 10 ft.
Type: Blindsense

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Identify Substance

Examine a substance by sight, scent, taste, texture, or sound. Learn whether it is poisonous, diseased, magical, artificial, organic, metallic, spoiled, explosive, or altered, and identify common materials automatically. Rare or disguised substances may require an Investigation, Nature, Arcana, or Medicine check.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: Touch
Duration: Instant
Type: Sense / Analysis

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Reflexive Awareness

When you are surprised, attacked by a hidden creature, targeted from behind, or caught by a trap you could physically perceive, make a WIS save against the triggering DC. On a success, you are not surprised and may move 10 ft. or impose disadvantage on the triggering attack.

Action: Reaction
Use: At-Will
Range: Self
Duration: Instant
Effect: 10 ft.
Type: Danger Sense
Save: WIS

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Trackless Tracker

For the duration, you can track creatures across hard floors, crowds, shallow water, urban terrain, or disturbed air if they left any physical trace. You have advantage on Survival checks to follow trails less than 7 days old.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: Self
Duration: 8 Hours
Effect: 7 days
Type: Tracking

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Tier 4

Piercing Focus

When a creature or object within range benefits from cover, concealment, darkness, camouflage, disguise, or sensory distraction, focus through the interference. Until the end of this turn, ignore half cover and disadvantage from dim light, light obscurement, or mundane camouflage against that target.

Action: Reaction
Use: At-Will
Range: 120 ft.
Duration: Instant
Effect: 120 ft.
Type: Focus / Sight
Roll: Attack

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Scent Memory

Smell or touch a creature, object, footprint, garment, bloodstain, or handled item. If you have encountered the scent before, you identify the source. If not, you can remember it perfectly and track it with advantage for the next 24 hours.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: Touch
Duration: Instant
Effect: 24 hours
Type: Scent / Memory

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See the Hidden

For the duration, you have advantage on Perception and Investigation checks to detect hidden creatures, secret doors, traps, invisible creatures, disguises, hidden compartments, and sensory illusions. This does not reveal things with no physical or sensory trace.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: Self
Duration: 10 Minutes
Type: Detection

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Wide Awareness

Expand your awareness across the emanation. For the duration, you cannot be flanked, creatures in the emanation cannot gain advantage against you from being unseen unless behind total cover, and you know when a visible creature enters or leaves the area.

Action: Bonus Action
Use: At-Will
Range: Self (60 ft.)
Duration: 1 Minute
Effect: 60 ft.
Type: Awareness / Defense

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Tier 5

Blindsight

For the duration, gain blindsight out to 30 ft. while you are not incapacitated. This sense uses hearing, vibration, pressure, scent, and micro-movement; it does not function through total cover or in a zone that suppresses all relevant senses.

Action: Bonus Action
Use: At-Will
Range: Self
Duration: 10 Minutes
Effect: 30 ft.
Type: Blindsight

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Hear the Heart

Listen to heartbeat, breath, pulse, tension, and vocal microchanges of one creature within range. Learn whether it is calm, afraid, injured, poisoned, diseased, lying by stress response, or below half hit points. This is physiological reading, not mind reading.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: 60 ft.
Duration: 1 Minute
Type: Hearing / Body

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Sensory Overwatch

Choose one watch area in the emanation. For the duration, you have advantage on Perception checks involving the area, can keep watch while performing light activity, and cannot be surprised by creatures entering the area unless they leave no sensory trace.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: Self (120 ft.)
Duration: 8 Hours
Effect: 120 ft.
Type: Watch / Perception

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Sensory Strike

Strike through a sensory opening. Make a ranged or melee power attack against a creature you can perceive within range. On a hit, the target takes 6d8 weapon, psychic, or thunder damage, and it cannot benefit from being hidden or invisible against you until your next turn.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: 120 ft.
Duration: Instant
Effect: 6d8
Type: Weapon / Psychic / Thunder
Roll: Attack

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Tier 6

Ambush Breaker

When initiative is rolled, a trap triggers, or a hidden creature attacks in the emanation, choose up to six allies. Chosen creatures cannot be surprised by the triggering event and may move 10 ft. or draw a weapon.

Action: Reaction
Use: At-Will
Range: Self (60 ft.)
Duration: Instant
Effect: 6 allies
Type: Danger Sense / Support

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Long-Range Focus

For the duration, you can see and hear clearly at extreme distance. You suffer no Perception penalty for nonmagical distance out to 1 mile if line of sight or sound exists. Attacks do not gain extra range from this power.

Action: Bonus Action
Use: At-Will
Range: Self
Duration: 1 Hour
Effect: 1 mile
Type: Sight / Hearing

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Supernatural Senses Dominion

Your Supernatural Senses powers ignore disadvantage from darkness, distance, crowds, noise, strong smell, rain, or glare unless the target leaves no sensory trace. Your passive Perception increases by your WIS modifier.

Action: Passive
Use: At-Will
Range: Self
Duration: Permanent
Effect: WIS
Type: Sense / Perception

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Truesense

For the duration, you see through mundane disguises, visual illusions, camouflage, mirror tricks, and false sensory overlays within 60 ft. Magical illusions or transformations of Tier 6 or higher may contest this with the caster’s save DC.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: Self
Duration: 10 Minutes
Effect: 60 ft.
Type: Truth / Sight

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Tier 7

Extended Blindsight

For the duration, gain blindsight out to 60 ft. and tremor sense out to 60 ft. while touching a surface. You can distinguish creature size, direction, and movement style, but not color, writing, or fine visual detail through blindsight alone.

Action: Bonus Action
Use: At-Will
Range: Self
Duration: 10 Minutes
Effect: 60 ft.
Type: Blindsight / Tremor

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Hunt the Unseen

Choose one creature whose scent, voice, footprint, blood, aura residue, or physical trace you have encountered. For the duration, you know whether its trail is present within 1 mile and have advantage on checks to follow it. This does not reveal its location without a trail.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: Self
Duration: 1 Hour
Effect: 1 mile
Type: Tracking

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Read Microexpression

Study one creature’s face, scent, pulse, breath, posture, and voice. For the duration, you have advantage on Insight checks against it, and you know when its emotional state changes, when it is hiding pain, and when its body shows stress from a lie or omitted truth.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: 60 ft.
Duration: 10 Minutes
Type: Sense / Insight

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Sensorial Counter

When a creature, trap, illusion, or hidden effect within range relies on concealment, distraction, sound, light, scent, or misdirection, force the source to make a WIS save. On a failure, one chosen creature ignores the concealment or sensory rider until the start of your next turn.

Action: Reaction
Use: At-Will
Range: 90 ft.
Duration: Instant
Type: Counter / Perception
Save: WIS

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Tier 8

Panoramic Awareness

For the duration, you cannot be flanked, surprised, or targeted with advantage by creatures in the emanation unless they are behind total cover or leave no sensory trace. You know the location of all non-hidden moving creatures in the area.

Action: Bonus Action
Use: At-Will
Range: Self (120 ft.)
Duration: 1 Minute
Effect: 120 ft.
Type: Awareness / Defense

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Perfect Sentinel

For the duration, you can keep watch over the emanation without sleep or distraction. You know when any Tiny or larger creature enters, exits, attacks, casts, breaks an object, opens a door, or speaks above a whisper, unless protected by Tier 8 or higher stealth or silence.

Action: Action
Use: 1/Long Rest
Range: Self (300 ft.)
Duration: 8 Hours
Effect: 300 ft.
Type: Sentinel / Watch

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See Through the Veil

For the duration, you can see invisible creatures, ethereal traces, magical auras, sensory illusions, hidden doors, and transformed creatures within 60 ft. This reveals presence and outline, not thoughts, names, passwords, or remote events.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: Self
Duration: 10 Minutes
Effect: 60 ft.
Type: Truesense / Magic

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Sense the Weak Point

Choose one creature, object, or structure you can perceive within range. For the duration, once per turn when you or an ally hits it, the attack deals an extra 3d8 damage, and the attacker ignores half and three-quarters cover if it can still perceive the target.

Action: Bonus Action
Use: At-Will
Range: 120 ft.
Duration: 1 Minute
Effect: 3d8
Type: Precision
Roll: Attack

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Tier 9

Impossible Trail

Follow a nearly impossible trail: across rain, crowds, old stone, shallow water, battlefield chaos, or magical confusion. The trail must have existed physically. You know whether it continues within 10 miles and have advantage on all checks to follow it.

Action: 10 Minutes
Use: At-Will
Range: Self
Duration: 24 Hours
Effect: 10 miles
Type: Tracking

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Moment of Perfect Awareness

When danger begins in the emanation, instantly perceive all physical creatures, hazards, projectiles, openings, active illusions, and major sensory effects in the area that are not behind total cover. You and up to six allies cannot be surprised and gain advantage on initiative or the triggering save.

Action: Reaction
Use: 1/Long Rest
Range: Self (300 ft.)
Duration: Instant
Effect: 6 allies
Type: Awareness / Defense
Save: DEX / WIS

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Sovereign Senses

You cannot be blinded, deafened, or deprived of smell by mundane means. You have advantage on saves against magical sensory deprivation, illusions, invisibility, silence, and concealment. Your passive Perception cannot be reduced by effects below Tier 9 unless you are incapacitated.

Action: Passive
Use: At-Will
Range: Self
Duration: Permanent
Type: Sense / Protection
Save: WIS

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True Blindsight

Gain blindsight out to 120 ft. for the duration. You perceive creatures, objects, motion, pressure, heat, scent, and vibration as a complete spatial map. Total cover still blocks this sense unless the cover carries sound, vibration, heat, or scent from the target.

Action: Bonus Action
Use: At-Will
Range: Self
Duration: 10 Minutes
Effect: 120 ft.
Type: Blindsight

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Tier 10

Omnisense

For the duration, you perceive sight, sound, scent, vibration, heat, pressure, motion, and magic traces across the emanation. You know the location of creatures and objects not behind total cover and cannot be blinded, deafened, surprised, or fooled by mundane concealment.

Action: Bonus Action
Use: At-Will
Range: Self (300 ft.)
Duration: 1 Minute
Effect: 300 ft.
Type: Omnisense

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Pierce All Masks

For the duration, within 120 ft. you perceive invisible, disguised, transformed, ethereal, illusion-veiled, magically silenced, and magically hidden creatures or objects as sensory outlines. This does not reveal thoughts, true names, memories, or distant information.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: Self
Duration: 10 Minutes
Effect: 120 ft.
Type: Truesense

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The First Witness

Become mythic witness to a place, hunt, crime, omen, battlefield, truth, or hidden thing. Define its principle with the GM: the witness who cannot be deceived, the hunter who never loses the trail, the sentinel who sees the first danger, or the eye that names the hidden wound. It can be opposed only by Tier 10 concealment, divine intervention, or a story condition set when declared.

Action: Action
Use: 1/Ever
Range: Self
Duration: Until Resolved
Effect: Unique
Type: Senses / Story
Roll: Varies
Save: Varies

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The Perfect Hunt

Choose one creature, object, trail, scent, voice, pulse, or sensory signature you have personally encountered. For the duration, if it leaves any physical sensory trace on the same plane within 100 miles, you can follow the trail. This does not teleport you or reveal a location with no trail.

Action: Action
Use: 1/Long Rest
Range: Self
Duration: 24 Hours
Effect: 100 miles
Type: Tracking / Hunt

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Supernatural Senses

Powers

Supernatural Senses shapes a character's supernatural focus, training, and power set.

Power index

Supernatural Senses Powers

42 powers, grouped by tier. The rules needed for quick reference are shown directly in each row.

Browse all Aspects

Tier 0

Danger Prickle

Action: Reaction
Use: At-Will
Range: Self
Duration: Instant
Effect: 1d4
Type: Danger Sense
Save: DEX

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Keen Sense

Choose sight, hearing, smell, taste, or touch. For the duration, add 1d4 to Perception, Investigation, or Survival checks that rely primarily on that sense.

Action: Bonus Action
Use: At-Will
Range: Self
Duration: 1 Minute
Effect: 1d4
Type: Sense / Skill

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