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[Dungeons and Dragons]Blind Fighter

Started by Serious Paul, September 17, 2007, 06:55:18 PM

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Serious Paul

September 17, 2007, 06:55:18 PM
Say you were going to create a dwarven fighter who was blind, as a result of bilateral anophthalmia, how would you go about setting him up?

One of my players has a Dwarf Fighter who was born without eyes-bilateral anophthalmia-and has chosen to pursue this character in my current game. He's quite fine with a lot of the limitations that he'll obviously encounter-but we are trying to establish a fair method of handling certain things, as D&D just is not designed (From what we can tell) for a blind character.

Some of you may have already come across stuff like this, or been there and done that-so any advice or anecdotes would be quite welcome!

James McMurray

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September 18, 2007, 10:30:10 AM
Maybe add a couple of feats to the Blind-Fighting chain. The first one could drop the miss chance to 25%, and the second could grant blindsense out to 5'/2 levels.

Alternatively, there are several items that would help. Theone that springs to mind it the Blindfold of True Darkness. You wear it over your eyes and it gives you blindsight 30'.

Serious Paul

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September 18, 2007, 10:59:16 AM
Cool. Thanks.

Pseudoephedrine

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September 19, 2007, 02:01:18 AM
One thing to sort out is whether he still has darkvision or not, despite having no eyes.
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