Spelljammer
Echo Mastery
Echo Sense (talent)
A heightened combat awareness that evolves from trained instinct into supernatural perception.

Requirements
  • PER 17 minimum
  • PER 18 required at Rank 5
  • PER 20 required at Rank 8
  • PER 22 required at Rank 10
  • MA 16 required at Rank 10+
  • MA 17 required at Rank 12+
  • MA 19 required at Rank 15

Core Scaling (Ranks 1–4: Enhanced but Mundane)
Each rank grants +2 effective PER for combat PER rolls (see Fighting Blind rules).

Movement Awareness:
  • Dim light: 10 ft + 2 ft per rank
  • Total darkness: 5 ft + 1 ft per rank

If unable to both see and hear, but still able to feel and smell, then each rank is +1 instead of +2 and movement awareness range is halved.

Rank 5 — “Spatial Reading” (Borderline Superhuman)

When fighting an unseen opponent:
  • If the target is adjacent (within melee reach), treat your PER roll as one category higher on the darkness table (pitch black treated as cave, cave treated as cloudy night, etc.)
  • You automatically know the location of all moving creatures within 10 ft, even without a PER roll
  • You may treat all targets within 10 ft as adjacent for Fighting Blind purposes
  • Enemy +20 bonus to hit you is reduced to +10

Rank 8 — “Unseen Combatant”
  • You no longer require PER rolls for adjacent opponents.
  • You are never considered “blind” for DEF vs adjacent opponents.
  • You can detect invisible creatures (if they are not perfectly still)

Rank 10 — “Echo Perception” (Supernatural Threshold)
  • You perceive your surroundings as a continuous spatial field within 20 ft
  • No penalties to SC or DEF within this range due to darkness, blindness, fog, etc.
  • You can detect:
  • Invisible creatures
  • Creatures behind light cover
  • You partially sense air displacement, heat, motion

Rank 12 — “Blind Sight”
  • Full awareness within 25 ft, including:
  • Invisible
  • Hidden
  • Silenced creatures
  • Illusions that rely on sight automatically fail within range unless they include sound, smell and feel.
  • You ignore enemy +20 bonus completely

Rank 15 — “Perfect Awareness”
  • Radius: 30 ft
  • You perceive all creatures as if fully visible regardless of:
  • Darkness
  • Invisibility
  • Obscurement
  • You may react to unseen threats
  • Cannot be surprised within radius
  • You can fight normally even if blind AND deaf (awareness becomes extrasensory)