Third EyeYou possess and can open a third eye that permits you to see things as they really are and gain greater insight into auras.
Prerequisite(s): Psychic Sensitivity or ability to cast psychic spells.
Benefit(s): Once per day as a standard action, you can open a spiritual third eye positioned on your forehead between and above your normal eyes. You can keep this eye open for up to 1 minute per character level you possess. This duration doesn’t have to be consecutive, but it must be used in 1-minute increments. Once per day while your third eye is open, you can use the read aura occult skill unlock after 1 minute of intense concentration. This is in addition to the normal daily use of read aura (which still takes 10 minutes). While your third eye is open, you gain a +4 bonus on Perception checks to read auras, as well as a +8 bonus on Perception checks to detect invisible creatures or objects or see through magical disguises (both illusory ones and those provided by the change shape ability or polymorph magic).
When you close your third eye, either voluntarily or at the end of the time limit, you are fatigued for an amount of time equal to the length of time you kept your third eye open.
Normal: Without this feat, you must spend 10 minutes in intense concentration to read one of a creature or item’s four auras, and you can do so only once per day.
Special: You can take this feat multiple times. Its effects don’t stack. Each time you take the feat, you increase the number of times per day you can open your third eye (and read an aura) by one.
Emphasis mine. The feat first says once a day, but then goes on to say you can break it down in multiple blocks of 1-min. Is it correct to assume that you can then use the eye multiple times per day at character level 2+? does it require a standard action for each 1-min activation? Thank you!
The special line tells you the answer - one more time & +1 minute total duration each time you take the feat. If you're crazy enough to take this feat more than once you can open your third eye more than once per day and can divide up the duration; e.g. If you take the feat at 1st and 3rd level then at 3rd level you can open it twice, either twice for 2 minutes each, or once for 3 minutes and once for 1 minute.
Just take the Mutant Eye trait...
The 1-min concentration requirement is currently my main problem, and in second place, checking auras only once more per day.
I have a character with the Empath feat which lets your read emotion auras as a full-round action; it's way better than Third Eye and can be used as often as you like if you accept a one-minute will save penalty after each attempt. Third Eye would be cool if it could work similarly, but the once a day, 1 minute business makes it impractical against most creatures. I could understand someone accepting an uncomfortable 1 full round silence but a full minute would leave most creatures and NPCs pretty much hostile or would generate a large amount of distrust...
The special line tells you the answer - one more time & +1 minute total duration each time you take the feat. If you're crazy enough to take this feat more than once you can open your third eye more than once per day and can divide up the duration; e.g. If you take the feat at 1st and 3rd level then at 3rd level you can open it twice, either twice for 2 minutes each, or once for 3 minutes and once for 1 minute.
At 3rd level shouldn't that be twice: once for 2 min and once for 1 min?
The second instance of third eye also adds 1 minute to the duration allowed.
How imperative is it to be able to read auras? Seems like a lot of hoops to jump through just to see what something's alignment is. Fatigued afterwards, too? Why?
If someone wasted a feat on this one time, I would just give it to them again for free every odd level afterwards... because it's freaking stupid to make them take it more than once when it's already so terrible.
The second instance of third eye also adds 1 minute to the duration allowed.
I'm blind.
I've read and reread the Special line a dozen times and cannot find where it adds a minute, only where it adds one the number of times you can activate it.
The second instance of third eye also adds 1 minute to the duration allowed.I'm blind.
I've read and reread the Special line a dozen times and cannot find where it adds a minute, only where it adds one the number of times you can activate it.
I'm seeing things. My bad, dunno how it happened.
Heh...I was thinking how am I missing this?
I'm seeing things. My bad, dunno how it happened.The second instance of third eye also adds 1 minute to the duration allowed.I'm blind.
I've read and reread the Special line a dozen times and cannot find where it adds a minute, only where it adds one the number of times you can activate it.
Phew, thanks for verifying I'm not going crazy! Think of it as a testament to your usual precision that I assumed it was me. : D
This ability text is so weird, weird enough that I'd pretty much have to house rule it.