Discerning smell


Ancestries & Backgrounds

Liberty's Edge RPG Superstar 2008 Top 32, 2011 Top 16

Like keen hearing, why does this only work to detect unseen creatures? What about smelling things like smoke in the distance, poison in food or drink, etc.? Also, with the mention of 30 feet and half that upwind, what about creatures with strong smells at double distance, like those with stench such as a ghast or troglodyte?


Joel, while having separate threads for topics in separate areas (i.e. subforums) is a good idea and in accordance with Vic Wertz's recommendations, IMHO making a separate thread for each ancestry feat you want to criticize is way overdoing it.

Liberty's Edge RPG Superstar 2008 Top 32, 2011 Top 16

Fuzzy-Wuzzy wrote:
Joel, while having separate threads for topics in separate areas (i.e. subforums) is a good idea and in accordance with Vic Wertz's recommendations, IMHO making a separate thread for each ancestry feat you want to criticize is way overdoing it.

Trust me, it would be a lot easier to post my entire 70 pages of notes, but I'm trying to follow Vic's request. I'd rather post the way we've been asked to and have my thoughts seen rather than post large chunks and not have them seen.


JoelF847 wrote:
Fuzzy-Wuzzy wrote:
Joel, while having separate threads for topics in separate areas (i.e. subforums) is a good idea and in accordance with Vic Wertz's recommendations, IMHO making a separate thread for each ancestry feat you want to criticize is way overdoing it.
Trust me, it would be a lot easier to post my entire 70 pages of notes, but I'm trying to follow Vic's request. I'd rather post the way we've been asked to and have my thoughts seen rather than post large chunks and not have them seen.

You have 70 pages of notes on ancestry feats?

Liberty's Edge RPG Superstar 2008 Top 32, 2011 Top 16

Fuzzy-Wuzzy wrote:
JoelF847 wrote:
Fuzzy-Wuzzy wrote:
Joel, while having separate threads for topics in separate areas (i.e. subforums) is a good idea and in accordance with Vic Wertz's recommendations, IMHO making a separate thread for each ancestry feat you want to criticize is way overdoing it.
Trust me, it would be a lot easier to post my entire 70 pages of notes, but I'm trying to follow Vic's request. I'd rather post the way we've been asked to and have my thoughts seen rather than post large chunks and not have them seen.
You have 70 pages of notes on ancestry feats?

LOL, no, on the PF2 playtest rules as a whole (excluding the bestiary - I'll get to that later) And it's 67 pages technically.


This. So much this. Discerning Smell is a neat idea, but the application doesn't work right--instead of superhuman keen smell, it feels more like smell based radar--and that is super weird.

I'd love it to feel more like the scent special ability or like the Alertness feat.

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