360° Vision
360° Vision
25 points
You have a 360° field of vision. You have no penalty to defend against attacks from the sides or rear. You can attack foes to your sides or rear without making a Wild Swing, but you are at -2 to hit due to the clumsy angle of attack (note that some Karate techniques do not suffer this penalty). Finally, you are at +5 to detect Shadowing attempts, and are never surprised by a danger that comes from behind, unless it also is concealed from sight.
Extra eyes are merely a special effect of this trait – you can have any number of eyes, but the point cost remains the same.
This trait most often represents extra eyes, eyestalks, etc., but it doesn't have to be physiological. Espers, martial-arts masters, omniscient deities, and the like might know what's going on behind them without having to look.
Alternatives
To follow several things going on around you at once, take Enhanced Tracking instead or as well. Without this, you must focus on one thing at a time.
Special Enhancements
- Panoptic 1: You can see all around you without turning your head and without the need for extra eyes. This is an enhancement because your gift isn't obvious – you can visibly stare in one direction and actually be looking in another! You still need eyes, though. If you're blindfolded, dazzled, blinded by injuries, etc., you cannot see. +20%.
- Panoptic 2: As above, but you don't need eyes. You can always perceive everything going on around you, even if blinded or blindfolded. You still need light, unless you have something like Dark Vision. Blows to the eyes injure you normally but won't blind this sense. +60%.
Special Limitation
Easy to Hit: Your eyes are on stalks, unusually large, or otherwise more vulnerable to attack. Others can target your eyes from within their arc of vision at only -6 to hit. -20%.
Powering Up
Those with body-alteration or shapeshifting powers often add Switchable to temporarily grow extra eyes. Light power might let the user direct light coming from all directions to his eyes; this calls for Panoptic 1. Panoptic 2 is for those with supernatural powers – ESP, chi, divine omniscience, etc. In all cases, Talent adds to the user's IQ and Vision rolls to notice the presence of "interesting" activity in parts of his visual field he isn't currently focusing on.