Area effect "target" you can't see

[Hypersmurf]

It goes off where he says it does. The trick is getting the player to pretend that he can't see where things are when he specifies the spell's target. If he can't keep his OOC eyes from helping his character, then the DM can do something like roll randomly to put the spell near where he wants it, or tell the player to sit facing away from the table while he's blinded.

I like Monte Cook's idea - if your character's blind, you sit under the table.

-Hyp.

 

[Zandel]

This is where not having a battlemat helps.......In both cases (Fireball and Sound Burst) you say how high and how far and in whitch direction the spell goes and IF you have line of effect then it works. The key is guessing the distance correctly.

 

[UltimaGabe]

I like Monte Cook's idea - if your character's blind, you sit under the table.

-Hyp.

He also said to sit under the table if your character is invisible, if I'm not mistaken.

 

[Hypersmurf]

He also said to sit under the table if your character is invisible, if I'm not mistaken.

Yeah - from memory, that was his initial tip. He found it hard to for DM and players to remember that they couldn't see the invisible character, so he had the player sit under the table as a memory aid. I think it was from there that he realised how well it worked for blind PCs as well.

-Hyp.