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Creature Creatures associated with dark insight, such as any creature with the Abomination subtype, or any creature from the Far Realm, can add a creature's dark insight bonus as a bonus to their Listen, Search, and Spot checks against you, and can detect them as if they had [[SRD:Scent|scent]].
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== Dark Insight ==
This rule can be applied to any situation where there is something in the world beyond reality, such as situations and events typically associated with Lovecraftian horror. Dark insight represents your awareness of the things beyond visible reality, which can be a good or a bad thing. For while the The deeper you delve into dark insight , the more you know and understand the horrors , and the better you can fight them. But as you do, you also become more vulnerable to things beyond as well.
Most creatures have a Dark Insight score of -, but on obtaining a score (such as being exposed to eldritch horrors from beyond time and space) , they gain a score of 0. Treat it as if it were ranks in a skill, but dark insight is not limited by your character level. You can gain, or lose, additional ranks of dark insight based on what things you do and are exposed to, such as various things shown on the table below.
{| class="zebra d20"
! Dark Insight Modifier || class="left" | Example Events
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| -−2 || class="left" | Having knowledge of eldritch things wiped from your mind, as if from ''[[SRD:Modify Memory|modify memory]]''.
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| -−1 || class="left" | Taking 24 hours of meditation and rest to try and comprehend things. You must succeed on a [[Will]] save equal to your HD + 10. If you fail, you cannot retry until you gain at least one level or your dark insight modifier changes.
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| +1 || class="left" | Exposure to information on eldritch things, such as some dark and forbidden tome, or successfully use dark insight to reach the warped plane for the first time.
| +3 || class="left" | Exposure to actual eldritch things within your CR +2 or lower. Reach the warped plane with 40% miss chance or lower.
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| +4 || class="left" | Exposure to actual eldritch things within your CR +3 to your CR +5, or levels in a eldritch horror -themed class such as Alienist<sup>CA</sup>.
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| +5 || class="left" | Exposure to actual eldritch things of your CR +6 or higher, or reach the warped plane with 0% miss chance.
At any point you are exposed to an undesired change in dark insight, you can make a [[Will]] save (DC 10 + 1/2 effect's HD if any + effect's [[Charisma]] modifier if any) to negate the change. However, you take a penalty on your save equal to your dark insight bonus.
=== Uses for Dark Insight ===
*You can roll your dark insight bonus + [[Charisma]] modifier in place of straight opposed [[Charisma]] checks against any creature associated with dark insight, such as any creature with the Abomination subtype, or any creature from the Far Realm.
*Lastly, many creatures which dark insight applies to exist, but have no visible presence on the world. With a DC 10 dark insight check , you can reveal the world as it truly is, entering the "warped plane". Often things will take on a darker, more twisted, and more insane appearance and may reveal hidden paths unseen by others. This can be considered similar to ''[[SRD:Plane Shift|plane shift]]'', but you still exist on the original plane you were on. You are able to interact (and be affected by) things on both your original plane and the warped plane, though you have a 80% miss chance against any activities against yourself or your own actions to things on the warped plane. For every +5 points you succeed on your check, your miss chance in the warped plane drops by 20%, to a maximum of 100% at DC 30.
If you perform an action which is possible in the warped plane but impossible in your original plane (such as walking through a wall which is a doorway in the warped plane), if your miss chance fails , you are shunted into the nearest valid position with 1d6 damage plus an additional +1d6 for every 5 feet you travel, if you are not in a valid space. Thus , moving through impossible spaces is a dangerous prospect.
From the original plane, for those who do not have the dark insight to see what you are doing, it simply appears as if you are violating reality, passing through walls, or doing other impossible acts. And if you are attacked by things in the warped plane, it would appear as if you are spontaneously developing wounds from no source.
