Sense Emotion
Force power · Level 1 · Universal
power-typeForcelevel1alignmentUniversalconcentrationtrue
Tweaked from 5eYou already know this as 5e Detect Thoughts — It's a lighter Detect Thoughts—same focus-on-one-creature-within-30-feet mind-reading structure, but you only pick up their prevailing emotion plus Insight advantage instead of actual surface thoughts, with no deeper probe. ✨
Attune to one humanoid within 30 feet each turn to learn its prevailing emotion and gain advantage on Insight checks against it.
Detection
●○○breadth · humanoids only, social only
TargetingSingle
Use whenbefore or during a negotiation or interrogation to read the room
ScalingFlat — no higher-slot scaling.
!Concentration; only works on humanoids — non-humanoids and charm-immune creatures always register as calm.
divinationmind-affectingpsychic
Pairs withCoerce Mind · a face-of-the-party build · high Wisdom modifier
You attune your senses to pick up the emotions of others for the duration. When you cast the power, and as your action on each turn until the power ends, you can focus your senses on one humanoid you can see within 30 feet of you. You instantly learn the target's prevailing emotion, whether it's love, anger, pain, fear, calm, or something else, and you have advantage on Wisdom (Insight) checks against the target. If the target isn't actually humanoid or it is immune to being charmed, you sense that it is calm.
- Casting Period
- 1 action
- Range
- Self
- Duration
- up to 10 minutes
- Concentration
- Yes