Empathy

Empathy Social  Basic  800 hours  Psionic  Counts as two skills at character creation Everyone is either sympathetic or psychotic, and it is even possible to be both to some degree. Your sympathy with others has been raised to the level of psionic art. That doesn't discount the possibility that you are psychotic, however. An empath is someone who can detect the emotions of others. All feelings and emotive responses within a few hundred feet are picked up. Someone who is physically closer, closer to you emotionally, or is the person on whom you are focusing your attention is going to be received more strongly. Emotions are not very exact—you can tell that someone is angry, but not why (they might not even really know). Empaths can receive a bonus of up to +3 to skills such as Detect Lies, Diplomacy, or Glare.