Awareness

The Awareness Score determines your character's ability to passively notice important things in the world around them, and is dependent on your character's sensory skills. Awareness is a defense against Stealth attempts, the ability to notice changes in ambient noise and quiet sounds, and the ability to notice subtle movements and inconsistencies in the environment. The GM keeps a record of your character's awareness and, if your awareness is high enough, the GM will let you know when your character notices something without looking for it first. Awareness is based on a combination of Intelligence, Wisdom, Spot and Listen Skill training, along with other miscellaneous bonuses. To determine your character's Awareness Score, use the following formula:

A creature with additional or different sensory skills, such as Scent, adds (or substitutes) the ranks of those skills to their Awareness.