{"id":"mage/power/rote/battlefield-sense","type":"power","system":"rote","line":"mage","name":"Battlefield Sense","sources":[{"source":"HDYDT","page":63}],"entries":["Warriors often wish they had eyes everywhere. A mage with {@sphere Correspondence|M20} 1 or better, though, actually can see the bat-tleground’s Big Picture. By harnessing the Spatial Perceptions Effect of first-rank {@sphere Correspondence|M20} Arts (described in Mage 20, Chapter Ten), an Enlightened combatant can get a sense of the various parties, obstacles, weapons, and other factors of a given fight.","This feat requires a normal {@system Arete Roll|BoS|Arete roll}, focused through the appropriate tools and activities: a viewscreen, a brief meditation, a battlefield “Hail Mary,” or whatever other tactic suits the mage and his practice. Each success on the roll (typically a coincidental Effect) lowers the difficulty of a related {@attribute Perception|V20} roll by -1 per success (-3 maximum).","That {@attribute Perception|V20} roll maps out the battlefield in the mage’s mind, showing him who’s where and what’s around them. If the mage has an {@ability Academics|V20} specialty of Strategy or Tactics, or the {@ability Leadership|V20} Talent, he can add that Ability onto the {@attribute Perception|V20} roll and then issue orders to his associates. A {@sphere Mind|M20}-Sphere link – like that shared by most {@npc Black Suit|M20} operatives – lets them see what he can see… which says volumes about the eerie way in which Black Suits always seem to know what’s going on before their enemies do."],"tags":["hdydt","feat"],"_qa":{"flags":[],"parser":"headed_entries","confidence":0.9,"extracted":"2026-10-12","job":"hdydt-feats"},"level":null,"_links":{"self":"/api/v1/records/mage/power/rote/battlefield-sense","html":"/records/mage/power/rote/battlefield-sense","parent":null,"children":"/api/v1/records/mage/power/rote/battlefield-sense/children","sources":[{"abbr":"HDYDT","page":63,"folio":63,"title":"How Do You DO That?"}]},"_db":{"title":"Battlefield Sense","props":[],"parent_id":null,"level":null,"category":null,"summary":"Warriors often wish they had eyes everywhere. A mage with Correspondence 1 or better, though, actually can see the bat-tleground’s Big Picture. By harnessing the Spatial Perceptions Effect of first-rank Correspondence","tags":["feat","hdydt"],"children":[]}}