Limited Hearing Loss

-1 point

You don’t suffer from Hard of Hearing (p. B138), but fre-
quency extremes cause you difficulty. The following cases are
mutually exclusive:
High-Frequency Hearing Loss: This most noticeably affects
your ability to perceive consonant sounds and thus compre-
hend speech – especially in noisy surroundings. You have -1 to
Hearing rolls when significant background noise is present or
several people are talking at once. Even in quiet surroundings,
you’re at -1 to hear the sounds of small animals (cats, mice,
many insects), squeaky equipment, etc.
Low-Frequency Hearing Loss: You have difficulty detecting
such sounds as running engines, factory machinery, and large
appliances; explosions and thunder; and onrushing trains and
elephant stampedes! If you can’t use vision, you must rely on
vibrations in the ground. You also have trouble with the calls
of large animals: cattle, moose, etc. You’re at -2 to Hearing to
detect all of these things.
In a cinematic campaign, the GM may permit humans with
HFHL to buy Subsonic Hearing [5] and those with LFHL to
buy Ultrahearing [5] to emulate some of the more far-fetched
claims surrounding people with these disorders.