Wide-eyed

When a character or monster is caught completely unaware, it's known as wide-eyed. In game terms, a character who is wide-eyed may not add Agility nor Dodge to the Defense Roll, and may not parry.

If a defending character doesn't realize the attacking character is there (either from a failed Listen or Spot, or the attacker is completely invisible), the defending character is wide-eyed. A character who has the Sixth Sense Trump cannot be caught wide-eyed, and a character with Alertness has two chances to detect a surprise attack.