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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lord Ernie" data-source="post: 5336106" data-attributes="member: 58517">One possible way to prevent this from causing too much trouble, is to give the blind character some advantages compared to normally blinded characters, because yours has had to live and train with his condition his entire life. Examples:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">You don't take the -10 penalty to perception checks for being blinded. This is because, while you can't see, your other senses are fine-tuned beyond the range of most normal people. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Naturally, you are immune to the blind condition. Due to being cautious about your movement for your entire life, you don't grant CA for being blind.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">You've practiced magic/archery while being blind most of your life, and thus have learned to overcome some of the limitations of your condition. If you are aware of another creature during combat (i.e. they're not succesfully hiding from you), you don't take the usual -5 penalty to ranged attacks.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">As a trained warrior, you have tremorsense 1 (think Toph from Avatar: The Last Airbender) or blindsight 1. Your senses are so powerful that, to a limited range, you can sense the disturbances in the air made by the movements of your foes, or feel the tiny tremors they cause when they shift their weight and move around, allowing you to predict their movements, and stopping them from catching you off-guard (in rules terms, you can make OA's, can flank, don't take the -5 penalty in melee, and don't grant CA).</li> </ul>As always, confer with your DM. If he/she likes using stealthy monsters a lot, and otherwise thinks a blind character can cause a problem, I'd recommend against it. Otherwise, have fun with your character <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />.</blockquote>

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