Editing Skill Descriptions (section)

==NOTICE== 
WIS
Use this skill to notice things.
Check: Make a skill check to notice something. Notice checks generally
suffer a penalty of –1 per 10 feet between you and the thing you’re trying
to notice. If you’re distracted, you take a –5 penalty on Notice checks.
Making out details—such as clearly hearing conversation or reading text—
requires you to exceed the DC by 10 or more.
The GM may make Notice checks secretly so you don’t know whether
there was nothing to notice or you just failed to notice it. The most common
sorts of Notice checks are:
BB
I have foreseen...
…These two are
not going to have a
good night.
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• Listen (auditory): Make a check against a DC based on how loud the
noise is or against an opposed Stealth check. A normal conversation
is DC 0, a quiet noise DC 10. Listening through a door is +5 DC, +15
for a solid wall. While you’re asleep, hearing something well enough
to wake up is +10 DC.
• Spot (visual): Make a check against a DC based on how visible the
object is or against an opposed Stealth check. Spot is also used to
detect someone in disguise (see Disguise, page 47), or to notice a
concealed object.
• Other Senses: You can make Notice checks involving other sense types
as well as various special senses (see page 103 for more on sense
types and unusual senses). Noticing something obvious to a sense is
DC 0. Less obvious things are DC 10 or so, hidden things DC 20 or
more, and making out details requires you to exceed the DC by 10 or
more.
Try Again: You can make a Notice check every time you have the opportunity
to notice something new. As a move action, you can attempt to
notice something you failed (or believe you failed) to notice previously.
Action: A Notice check is either a reaction (if called for by the GM) or a
move action (if you take the time to try and notice something).
Special: When several characters try to notice the same thing, the GM
can make a single d20 roll and use it for all the characters’ skill checks.
Various sensory effects provide modifiers on Notice checks (see Super-
Senses, page 102, for details).
Taking 20 on a Notice check means you spend 1 minute attempting to
notice something that may or may not be there.