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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ARandomGod" data-source="post: 2502040" data-attributes="member: 17296">The sword gives the wielder a curse that strikes him blind. Only instead of instantly going blind they go blind over the course of a day. Actually, the original version I had of this made the character go blind over the course of a week, with the headache slowly going away as the eye's burned out. Holding the sword everything was always in sharp focus, when you let it go it seemed blurry... By comparison? (Answer, yes, but also because you're slowly losing your sight).Farsight was a huge part of the sword. Beside, how often do you really apply those spot penalties for distance? The main point is that the character can see ANYwhere up to the horizon as easily as he can see something five feet away. Very strong eyesight. Hence no spot penalty for distance, in game terms. If you're dropping it for "logic" however you have to reconsider that it's all magic and drop the entire game system!Heheh. But no, the sword causes you to go completely blind, physically. But it grants you magical sight. You don't necessarily notice that you're blind unless and until you're separated from the sword. Because as long as you're holding it you can see magically. When you're separated from it you lose your magical sight and have to rely on your "normal" vision, which burned out shortly after you first used the sword.So the sword DOES strike the wielder blind. But the wielder can see fine, better than fine, as long as he's got the sword.</blockquote>

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