<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=347850.msg16392593#msg16392593">Quote from: TFcommando on 31-01-2023, 21:27:22</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">You’ll want Range on that if it’s not just by touching it, for a start, can you use it in combat when you can’t see?<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Using the Detect model, a 2-rank purchase of Detect Electricity would operate beyond touch... but the difficulty of noticing something (i.e. the DC for a Perception check) increases by 1 for every 10' away it is.  By default, even spectacular superpowered activity that's just 100 yards (300') away is all but impossible for most characters to Detect (at +30 difficulty to whatever the base DC would have been for the check), even if they have the relevant power to do so.<br/><br/>It seems to be one of the deliberate features of the highly-populated super-setting that even superpowers are really quite bad at<em>noticing</em>anything that's not in close proximity.  But with Detect: Electricity, you could (closely) follow power-lines and the like, and when close up to something<em>unusual</em>and electrical you should stand a good chance of realising.<br/><br/>If you want to be able to accurately blind-fight with it, then you're looking at adding Counters Invisibility (for example)... but being able to detect someone within 10' of you (without being able to tell what combat stance they're adopting or whether they're taking a swing at you) wouldn't require any extra investment, just a successful Perception check.<br/><br/><hr/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=347850.msg16392616#msg16392616">Quote from: Muse on 31-01-2023, 21:42:36</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">OMG!  That's all of us, right?  :) <br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>I think that someone wants me to get to work... ;D