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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 9774342" data-attributes="member: 7006">Well, me personally I've never felt the specificity of just giving &quot;hearing and smell&quot; to its Keen Senses as anything worthwhile, because the game itself does not almost ever distinguish between any of the five senses when it asks for Perception checks.&nbsp; When there's something to be noticed it's just &quot;make a Perception check&quot;, with no specific designation of which sense is doing the heavy lifting.&nbsp; So in the dog's case... if a PC has made a Dexterity (Stealth) check to hide, the game does not state which of the five senses is going to be used to find the PC... any of them could the one that does it.&nbsp; Maybe the dog sees the person hiding, maybe they hear them, maybe they smell them?&nbsp; Doesn't matter.&nbsp; Game doesn't tell us which.&nbsp; And thus making Keen Senses specifically for only two of them does not actually impact the dog either way-- they will still roll with Advantage to detect the PC.But at the end of the day... rolling with Advantage on all or just some of your senses does not actually change you as a creature, it just ups your odds a bit.&nbsp; A dog could roll a '6' and a '9' on a Perception check, while their human owner next to them rolls a '19' on theirs, so how great were the dog's Keen Senses then?&nbsp; They weren't.&nbsp; The dog wasn't actually Keen after all.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 9774342, member: 7006"] Well, me personally I've never felt the specificity of just giving "hearing and smell" to its Keen Senses as anything worthwhile, because the game itself does not almost ever distinguish between any of the five senses when it asks for Perception checks. When there's something to be noticed it's just "make a Perception check", with no specific designation of which sense is doing the heavy lifting. So in the dog's case... if a PC has made a Dexterity (Stealth) check to hide, the game does not state which of the five senses is going to be used to find the PC... any of them could the one that does it. Maybe the dog sees the person hiding, maybe they hear them, maybe they smell them? Doesn't matter. Game doesn't tell us which. And thus making Keen Senses specifically for only two of them does not actually impact the dog either way-- they will still roll with Advantage to detect the PC. But at the end of the day... rolling with Advantage on all or just some of your senses does not actually change you as a creature, it just ups your odds a bit. A dog could roll a '6' and a '9' on a Perception check, while their human owner next to them rolls a '19' on theirs, so how great were the dog's Keen Senses then? They weren't. The dog wasn't actually Keen after all. [/QUOTE]

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