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Message: <blockquote data-quote="chilibean" data-source="post: 57181" data-attributes="member: 2220">What we are dealing with is just a classic example of a paradox from time travel.  Knowing the future is impossible because logic doesn't work that way.If you feel that true strike works by knowing what is going on around you and helps guide your blow that way, then mind blank would seem to defeat it, because it can't find out anything about the target.  So it has nothing to do really with "divining" the future, it's a divination that takes a snapshot of the world in the present instant that it can see and apply's an educated guess to it and guides your blow with the results of that guess.If you are taking the approach that I originally did (and now am wavering on) that true strike works by gives you a somewhat fuzzy insight (it's not auto hit, so it has to be somewhat fuzzy) into your own future, then it should still work.  If you shoot and arrow at a flying II mind blanked wizard, will you see they arrow keep going or hear a resounding thunk?  That's only looking into your own future.  But since your future is really determined by the actions of others who have free will, the future is not set before hand, thus you can't see what will happen.I was ignoring this obvious paradox and assuming that true strike only affects yourself.  Since "yourself in the future", depends on the actions of the world around you, you are really divining the future of everything in the universe in all the planes of existence.  I mean, true strike would have to know that 18 parallel dimensions away, in the 458'th level of the abyss, that a demon isn't planing to gate into your world right at that moment in front of your arrow just before you release the bowstring.  This is obviously stupid to assume it can predict something like that, but since teleportsing and plane shifting are possible the event horizon of all points in the universe is infinite.  Again, I think all that is stupid and idiotic.I am just ignoring the paradox of knowing what you can't possibly know.Just decide it is taking a current snapshot and guiding you that way (in which case mind blank protects) or that it looks into your future (in which case mind blank doesn't protect).  Pick one and have fun.</blockquote>

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