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<blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 5339965" data-attributes="member: 2067"><p>Same way you fire a bow or throw a dagger at them: your friends tell you where to aim, and your ears and other senses guide you, and you are a Big Fat Hero, so you know where an enemy is by the sound of its footsteps and the smell of its sweat. </p><p></p><p>Being blinded doesn't make you unable to know where the enemy is.</p><p></p><p>Close your eyes for a moment. Now imagine someone opening the door to the room and shouting a battle cry at you. Think you could chuck a book in their general direction? That's what being blinded is kind of like, according to the 4e rules.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>That's not true, though. Standard Actions don't require any sort of check of any sort, and ranged attacks, as I've pointed out, don't require you to see what you're aiming at. Because you can tell where your enemy is without having to see them. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>That's not true, though. If you're blinded, you can still know where your enemy is and swing at them with your sword and maybe hit them. You take a pretty big penalty, but you can still give it a whirl and maybe hit them -- maybe even crit them!</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>He's attacking the sound and smell and feel of the goblin, where his friends say the goblin is, he can still affect the target, even if he can't see it. </p><p></p><p>You don't need to see something to be able to attack it. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>It still won't stop me from hitting, say, my bookcase, or my desk with both of those. Because I know where they're at. Because I can have other people point them out. And they're not even moving around and grunting and bleeding and smelling like an orc. It'd be even easier in that case.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Sight is not the only sense we have. I can perceive things with touch and smell and sound. Especially if those things are monsters trying to kill me and I am a Big Fat Hero capable of doing superhuman things like guiding my attacks with sound.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="I'm A Banana, post: 5339965, member: 2067"] Same way you fire a bow or throw a dagger at them: your friends tell you where to aim, and your ears and other senses guide you, and you are a Big Fat Hero, so you know where an enemy is by the sound of its footsteps and the smell of its sweat. Being blinded doesn't make you unable to know where the enemy is. Close your eyes for a moment. Now imagine someone opening the door to the room and shouting a battle cry at you. Think you could chuck a book in their general direction? That's what being blinded is kind of like, according to the 4e rules. That's not true, though. Standard Actions don't require any sort of check of any sort, and ranged attacks, as I've pointed out, don't require you to see what you're aiming at. Because you can tell where your enemy is without having to see them. That's not true, though. If you're blinded, you can still know where your enemy is and swing at them with your sword and maybe hit them. You take a pretty big penalty, but you can still give it a whirl and maybe hit them -- maybe even crit them! He's attacking the sound and smell and feel of the goblin, where his friends say the goblin is, he can still affect the target, even if he can't see it. You don't need to see something to be able to attack it. It still won't stop me from hitting, say, my bookcase, or my desk with both of those. Because I know where they're at. Because I can have other people point them out. And they're not even moving around and grunting and bleeding and smelling like an orc. It'd be even easier in that case. Sight is not the only sense we have. I can perceive things with touch and smell and sound. Especially if those things are monsters trying to kill me and I am a Big Fat Hero capable of doing superhuman things like guiding my attacks with sound. [/QUOTE]
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