Sense Surroundings
SenseUniversal- Cost
- 2 FP
- Activation
- Bonus Action
- Range
- Self
- Recommended Lv
- Lv 5+
Effect
As a Bonus Action, you let the Force map the space around you, perceiving without your eyes. For the next 3 rounds you have blindsight out to 30 ft: • you sense the exact position of every creature and object in range, • act with no penalty while Blinded or in darkness or smoke, • and ignore the Invisible condition on creatures within range. Total cover still blocks this sense.
At the Table
A Jedi shadow trooper kills the lights and floods the corridor with smoke, expecting easy prey. The Padawan spends a Bonus Action and 2 FP to let the Force map the room: for the next 3 rounds she has blindsight out to 30 ft, pinpointing the trooper's exact position, swinging with no penalty despite being Blinded, and tracking him even when he triggers a personal cloaking field. He ducks behind a blast door for total cover and vanishes from her sense, but the instant he leans out to fire, she already knows precisely where he is.
In the Lore
As a Sense-discipline power, this is the Force art of perceiving the world without the eyes, a hallmark of Jedi training famously dramatized by the blast-helmet remote test aboard the Millennium Falcon, where Obi-Wan Kenobi had Luke Skywalker block the seeker's bolts while blindfolded, urging him to "stretch out with your feelings" and trust the Force rather than his sight. The same gift lets Force-sensitives compensate for lost or impaired vision: Luke fought on as a blinded duelist in Legends, and Kanan Jarrus in Star Wars Rebels continued to battle and pilot after being blinded by Maul, leaning on the Force to feel the space and beings around him. In both canon and Legends, this heightened spatial awareness is a core defensive instinct of the Jedi, warning of unseen threats and guiding action in darkness or chaos. As a Universal Sense power, it belongs to no single side; Sith and dark-siders cultivate the same perception, though they more often bend it toward hunting and predation.