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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ForceUser" data-source="post: 319821" data-attributes="member: 2785">Playing Devil's Advocate...Blind Fury was a fantastic movie! Aren't you guys overlooking the obvious however? The idea of a blind character is super cool, but assuming your standard D&D world, unless the character's eyes were MISSING, he could pay a cleric (or get the party cleric) to simply cast remove blindness/deafness on him.And even if his eyes were removed, he could eventually afford/convince/plead with a cleric (or the party cleric) to cast regenerate on him, again curing him of his blindness in the event he had no eyes!So while the concept of the blind-fighter is really cool, I see it hard to maintain in D&D. A peasant on the roadside, sure, I could see a lifetime of blindness. A D&D player character in your standard world would need a bit more work to remain blind throughout his career:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Perhaps his religion forbids him to regain his sight.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Perhaps he's under a powerful curse that only a wish or miracle can undo.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Perhaps he actually prefers to be blind rather than sighted because he "sees things as they truly are" or "sees far more with his other senses" etc (add your psuedo-mystical BS reason here).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Following that train of thought, perhaps he gave up his sight voluntarily in exchange for other gifts (yep, sounds like a prestige class to me).</li> </ul>Any other suggestions to keep the blind man down?</blockquote>

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