Skilled at noticing details about those you interact with, you gain the following benefits:
- Increase your Intelligence or Wisdom score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
- If you can see a creature's eyes while it it responds to a question, you can tell if the answer is a lie.
- You have a +3 bonus to your Wisdom (Perception) and Wisdom (Insight) scores.
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Posted May 1, 2020I think this could be balanced by granting a +1 to Wisdom, Expertise in perception checks, and advantage on checks to read expressions.
As is, it's too powerful.
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Posted Sep 3, 2023Yah, always being able to tell if a creature is lying is stupidly strong, and also somewhat hilarious. The Great Wizard Torqual, master of illusion and enchantment magics, weaver of grand tales, can be caught out by a variant human looking at his eyes.
Also there's already a feat called Observant, which is literally a synonym of perceptive.
Here's my attempt to fix this feat:
Shrewd (better fits the description anyway)
Skilled at noticing small details during conversation, you gain the following benefits: