Adapted from Enhanced Hearing- Superpower Wiki
Enhanced Hearing
The power to possess a superhuman sense of hearing. Variation of Enhanced Senses.
Capabilities
Users of this power have their hearing abilities enhanced far beyond the human limit. Users also have the ability to hear different sounds at different frequencies that are miles away from the user.
Users' ears, in addition to having incredible hearing capabilities, have a "natural protection" that protects them against noise overload due to the large amount of sounds they hear daily. They are also capable of interpreting multiple layers of sounds, even in a crowded city miles away from the user.
Mechanics
Enhancements to ones sense of smell are calculated against the capabilities of a typical human. One’s sense of smell can be “improved” in a number of ways these are tracked as ranks of the Senses Effect and cost one point per rank.
Normal Hearing
Normal hearing is ranged (with a –1/10 feet modifier), acute (able to pick up details like differences in tone), and radius (able to pick up on sounds coming from any direction). Normal hearing is not accurate.
Accurate Hearing • 2 ranks
Accurate hearing can pinpoint something’s exact location. You can use an accurate sense to target something in combat.
Analytical Hearing • 1 rank
Beyond even acute, you can perceive specific details about anything you can hear, such as the frequency of sounds and energy wavelengths, and so forth.. Analytical Hearing only develops from Acute Hearing. Any creature that possesses Analytical Hearing also possesses Acute Hearing.
Counters Concealment • 2 ranks
Hearing with this trait ignores the Concealment effect of a particular descriptor; you sense the subject of the effect normally as if the Concealment wasn’t even there. For 5 ranks, the sense type ignores all Concealment effects, regardless of the descriptor. Concealed subjects seem slightly “off” to you, enough to know they are concealed to others.
Counters Illusion • 2 ranks
Hearing with this trait ignores the Illusion effect; you automatically succeed on your resistance check against the illusion if it affects your sense type, realizing that it isn’t real.
Distance Hearing • 1 rank
You can accurately and automatically judge distances.
Extended Hearing • 1 rank
Your hearing operates at a greater-than-normal range. Your range with the sense—the distance used to determine penalties to your Perception check—is increased by 10. Each additional time you apply this option, your range increases by an additional factor of 10, so 1 rank means you have a –1 to Perception checks per 100 feet, 2 ranks make it –1 per 1,000 feet, and so on. An extended sense may be limited by conditions like the horizon and physical barriers between you and the subject unless it also Penetrates Concealment.
Penetrates Concealment • 4 ranks
A sense with this trait is unaffected by concealment from obstacles (rather than Concealment effects). Hearing that Penetrates Concealment is unaffected by sound-proofing or intervening materials, and so forth.
Rapid Hearing • 1 rank
You can read or take in information from a sense faster than normal: each rank increases your perception speed by a factor of 10 (x10, x100, etc.) with a single sense, double cost for an entire sense type. You can use rapid vision to speed-read, pick up on rapid flickering between film frames, watch video replays in fast-forward speeds, and such, rapid hearing to listen to time-compressed audio “blips,” and so forth.
Ultra-Hearing• 1 rank
You can hear very high- and low-frequency sounds, like dog whistles or ultrasonic signals, including those used by some remote controls.
Extras
Innate: Senses, particularly those of aliens or constructs like robots, maybe Innate, although this does not prevent sensory effects like Concealment or Dazzle from disabling them. Flat +1 point.
Enhanced Sensate
Shisk Template
Some conditions that influenced the development of the shisk’s quills also triggered sensory sensitivities in the shisk. The shisk's eyes function under lower light conditions, and its olfactory nerves are more sensitive to smells.
Devices
Armory Sensor Suite- Sonic Band Sensors +1 Device
The Armory Ssensor suiter incorporates several sonic sensors that collect along the full sonic band incorporating the ultralow infrasonic and ultrahigh hypersonic bands. (Ultra Hearing)
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