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<blockquote data-quote="The Fighter-Cricket" data-source="post: 6748381" data-attributes="member: 32852">I will go along with the other comments and say, that your problem this is not as bad as it looks. When a player builds a character that is highly specialized then he wants to shine in one particular field. And why not? That's okay. I bet that every scene where the Holmes character can make use of his otherworldly perceptiveness will be a blast for the player. He will grin his face off and have fun and maybe roleplay it out: &quot;Of course I have sensed the faint lingering of the dutches' perfume in this chamber and have guessed rightly by the small twitching of her pinky finger that she is lying! Why? Because i am brilliant *hrhrhrhr*&quot;.So don't despair! It will be fun for the player - maybe the problem is on the side of the other players. (Almost) every scene where perception is involved it will be the spotlight for Holmes. Now you have to find a balance between this kind of scenes and encounters where your other player's characters can shine. If you are looking for challenges then use the input form Iserith. High perceptiveness does mean you sense a danger, clue, fishy situation etc. But that does not mean you can solve the case or trap in the same fashion.As a side note: Maybe you can talk to the Holmes player and ask him what he expects from his specialization. If he just wants to be super perceptive and get all the clues then everything is fine. If he also expects his character to solve everything hust through his high skill he will be disappointed because that's not how the skill works (see also Iserith's remarks). I like to talk to my players about what they expect from their characters and how they want their charactes to be special.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="The Fighter-Cricket, post: 6748381, member: 32852"] I will go along with the other comments and say, that your problem this is not as bad as it looks. When a player builds a character that is highly specialized then he wants to shine in one particular field. And why not? That's okay. I bet that every scene where the Holmes character can make use of his otherworldly perceptiveness will be a blast for the player. He will grin his face off and have fun and maybe roleplay it out: "Of course I have sensed the faint lingering of the dutches' perfume in this chamber and have guessed rightly by the small twitching of her pinky finger that she is lying! Why? Because i am brilliant *hrhrhrhr*". So don't despair! It will be fun for the player - maybe the problem is on the side of the other players. (Almost) every scene where perception is involved it will be the spotlight for Holmes. Now you have to find a balance between this kind of scenes and encounters where your other player's characters can shine. If you are looking for challenges then use the input form Iserith. High perceptiveness does mean you sense a danger, clue, fishy situation etc. But that does not mean you can solve the case or trap in the same fashion. As a side note: Maybe you can talk to the Holmes player and ask him what he expects from his specialization. If he just wants to be super perceptive and get all the clues then everything is fine. If he also expects his character to solve everything hust through his high skill he will be disappointed because that's not how the skill works (see also Iserith's remarks). I like to talk to my players about what they expect from their characters and how they want their charactes to be special. [/QUOTE]

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