Please may we have an official ruling? Enhanced Senses Blindsense


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Hello there, everybody. I've been scouring the internet for who knows how many hours to answer this simple question:

"Which blindsenses are covered by the Operative Exploit, Enhanced Senses?"

The reason is my GM is an old veteran Pathfinder GM and we are playing through the last module of Dead Suns (which is not too much of a spoiler, takes place in a vacuum environment). Why I bring up the Pathfinder part is he seems to be unaware of the change to Blindsense/Blindsight where it says on Pg. 263 of the Starfinder Core Rulebook and I quote "..., but it typically does not work in a vacuum (although this depends on the nature of the sense; for instance, emotion-based blindsight would work in a vacuum)."

The current blindsenses available to players at the time of this writing are: Sound, Scent, Vibration, Thought, Emotion, Life, and Heat.

The first three wouldn't work in a vacuum due to having no air for sound, scents, or vibrations to travel. The other four, however, should work perfectly fine in a vacuum due to not needing any atmospheric conditions to function. This is, of course, if Enhanced Senses covers them.

From my understanding of RAW is that all blindsenses apply to this Exploit, but since there is no parenthesis after the word "blindsense", this makes the description vague and open to interpretation.

This is why I am politely asking if we may have an official ruling on this to clear this part of the game up once and for all. Thank you everyone for taking the time to read this and have a great time playing Starfinder.


you'd want to try the rules forum where we can hit the faq button, but the process is sloooooooooooow and unsure

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