Creamsteak said:
If you think that such a disadvantage can bring out the character in your character, that's your right. But I don't think it should provide any sort of advantage outside of circumstance bonuses adjudicated by a DM.
Well, under normal circumstances, I would do just that. I'd talk to my DM about playing a blind character, we'd decide on what his penalties would be, and we'd decide on what his bonuses would be, we'd discuss whether he could improve or not, and then we'd play him. That's what I'm doing here, with this proposal. In LEW, every adventure this character goes on is likely to have a different DM, so I decided it would be better to make the whole thing universal and get input from many people. I'm not trying to make a god-character, I have tried to make it balanced, and I think that, for the most part, I have achieved something close. While this proposal is a template, my real motive behind the proposal is to make my character. A template seemed the best way to do it. The new section I'm adding might explain a bit more about it. That's all, I guess.
EDIT: Okay, I added the Healing the Blindness section and removed tremorsense (it seemed redundant). I also weakened the starting abilities and made the feat progression completely linear. I believe this to be pretty well thought out and any problems with it are probably only typoes, or perhaps times and durations. Thoughts and comments welcome, of course.
EDIT2: Oh yeah, and I just realized something, Nimisgod. A grimlock couldn't actually take this template because one of the requirements is that it be...
any humanoid that normally uses eyes as its major method of sensory perception
A grimlock does
not have eyes, and therefore couldn't have the template.