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Blindness & True Seeing
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Altamont Ravenard
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I guess if you're bling, True Seeing won't help you one bit, since when you're blind, everything has 100% concealment from you (although it would be a little silly that a 5ht level spell can't trump a 3rd level spell (cleric levels)).
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Camarath
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True seeing does state that "You confer on the subject the ability to see all things as they actually are.". So if you wanted to allow "the ability to see all things as they actually are" to include the "the ability to see" I think you could do so with out going out on to much of a limb.
James McMurray
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This came up in my last game session and I ruled that True Seeing does not grant sight, it only augments sight the target already posesses.
Altamont Ravenard
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James McMurray said:
ie "does not negate concealment"
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James McMurray
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Not quite. I just meant that it doesn't grant sight. It does negate some forms of concealment (those granted by darkness or invisibility).
bensei
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So in principle all agree that the person should be blind. In particular, true seeing does not help against blindness. I would say so, too. But one could very well interpret the spell descriptions differently. Does anyone know a reference in the rules or the FAQs?
PS: A similar problem occurs with Blindness and See Invisibility. Does being blinded mean that your "range of vision" is reduced to 0, or does the "range of vision" remain, you just cannot see?
PS: A similar problem occurs with Blindness and See Invisibility. Does being blinded mean that your "range of vision" is reduced to 0, or does the "range of vision" remain, you just cannot see?
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If your blind either your eyes don't work or your brain is not processing the information. Therefore any spells that enhance your sight...True seeing, darkvision, see invisibility, arcane sight, etc would not work.
If your sight was restored while said spells are active on you then you would gain the benefits.
That's my 2 cents.
If your sight was restored while said spells are active on you then you would gain the benefits.
That's my 2 cents.
Camarath said:
I agree with this and is how I would interpret it. While blind, you can't see anything how it actually is. During the duration of the true seeing spell, I would allow them to see all things as they actually are. However, once the spell ran out, the person would go back to seeing nothing.
It would be a nasty trick to play on blind peasants. You could grant them sight, they would think they were healed and be very excited to be seeing for the first time. Then you leave them alone and in the morning they wake up seeing nothing again.
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