Ask a simple question: Monty Python edition

[Littha]

They are just throwing daggers with a different name

[kevin_video]

They are just throwing daggers with a different name

That's what I wondered.

[TheEndIsNear]

Q 34 What are ways of getting slippery mind? Binder 8 rogue 10... what else?

[kevin_video]

A 34 Shadowdancer 7, Psychic Rogue 11, Psychic Assassin 5th

[TheEndIsNear]

Is psychic assasin a prestige class?

[GawainBS]

Yes, you can find it on the Wizards site.

[kevin_video]

Is psychic assasin a prestige class?

Yes. http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/psm/20040723d

Psychic Rogue's link is at the bottom.

[kevin_video]

Q 35 And this was just a thought, but if the condition Blinded was permanent, would that count as a flaw? I mean, could you take Blinded, Confused, and others as a flaw? I know there's variants on the Ability Drain, Deafened, and Panicked, so technically you should be able to, right? And gain a bonus feat out of it.

[Littha]

Q 35 And this was just a thought, but if the condition Blinded was permanent, would that count as a flaw? I mean, could you take Blinded, Confused, and others as a flaw? I know there's variants on the Ability Drain, Deafened, and Panicked, so technically you should be able to, right? And gain a bonus feat out of it.

i doubt it, blindness/deafness is a level 2 spell and shouldn't permanently grant you a feat.

[kevin_video]

Q 35 And this was just a thought, but if the condition Blinded was permanent, would that count as a flaw? I mean, could you take Blinded, Confused, and others as a flaw? I know there's variants on the Ability Drain, Deafened, and Panicked, so technically you should be able to, right? And gain a bonus feat out of it.

i doubt it, blindness/deafness is a level 2 spell and shouldn't permanently grant you a feat.

Let's go one step further though. Let's talk being born blind, being born deaf, having your ears cut off or eyes gouged out, or the spell being made permanent, or seeing something that blinded you permanently like seeing a Nymph (or the ranger's spell Blinding Beauty).

[Littha]

the spell is permanent...

[kevin_video]

the spell is permanent...

Not in the literal sense. That's what the Remove spell is for. I mean really permanent. To the point that the Remove Blindness/Deafness doesn't work.

[Littha]

Surely even if you have your eyes removed regenerate will heal that. i doubt there is a way in D&D to be permanently and incurably blind.

Q36can you use a thunderlance (spell) as a part of a hood build for extra damage?

[CantripN]

Surely even if you have your eyes removed regenerate will heal that. i doubt there is a way in D&D to be permanently and incurably blind.

Genetic flaw? Moral/Divine/Profane Vow not to see?

[kevin_video]

Surely even if you have your eyes removed regenerate will heal that. i doubt there is a way in D&D to be permanently and incurably blind.

I guess even if you were born blind there are grafts, but no commoner family can afford that. I'm just looking to make a blind character, and making it so that it's just fluff seems kind of dumb. Like I've seen flaws for it on homebrew sites, but they give two feats, plus bonuses for being blind, etc. so you're not actually losing anything when you considering those two slots can be used for Blind-Fight and eventually Blindsight 5-ft. Kind of defeats the purpose of being blind when you're probably better than your party members who have full vision.

There are lots of blind fighters out there, even though technically it can be argued that they have blindsense and blindsight to make up for it, but they were blind first, and gained those abilities later. Exampled: Daredevil, Zatoichi, Utsutsu Mujuro, etc.

[Negative Zero]

If you're born with eyes that don't work, Regenerate would just restore your nonfunctioning eyes.

[Littha]

Wish can rewrite the fabric of the universe, im sure it can fix nonfunctioning eyes.

Sure out of the price range for a commoner family but for an adventurer?

[kevin_video]

............. Okay. So, I walked away from the computer for a while because I was about to rant for about 2 pages, and this is simple questions, and I'm not about to do or say something to get me kicked off these boards. Humor me here, okay?

Revised Q 35 How would you work blindness as a flaw/into a flaw? Pretend it's not a perfect world for a minute, and you're lvl 1. Could the condition, Blinded, the way it's written, be a flaw by itself? That's all I'm asking. I want this as a viable flaw to take. For someone to CHOOSE to be blinded permanently. In the Quintessential Monk and Quintessential Fighter you have to be blinded permanently in some fashion in order to take Unseeing Blade and the Blind Master. If your sight is ever restored, you lose everything that has anything to do with that PrC. It's not right that you'd only be allowed to take it as a fluff. and not gain anything for it other than you retrain an old feat or wait for X levels to finally be able to learn Blind-Fight, and go from there. Now then. IF the condition, Blinded, is not a viable flaw by itself, what would make it so?

[Unbeliever]

............. Okay. So, I walked away from the computer for a while because I was about to rant for about 2 pages, and this is simple questions, and I'm not about to do or say something to get me kicked off these boards. Humor me here, okay?

Revised Q 35 How would you work blindness as a flaw/into a flaw? Pretend it's not a perfect world for a minute, and you're lvl 1. Could the condition, Blinded, the way it's written, be a flaw by itself? That's all I'm asking. I want this as a viable flaw to take. For someone to CHOOSE to be blinded permanently. In the Quintessential Monk and Quintessential Fighter you have to be blinded permanently in some fashion in order to take Unseeing Blade and the Blind Master. If your sight is ever restored, you lose everything that has anything to do with that PrC. It's not right that you'd only be allowed to take it as a fluff. and not gain anything for it other than you retrain an old feat or wait for X levels to finally be able to learn Blind-Fight, and go from there. Now then. IF the condition, Blinded, is not a viable flaw by itself, what would make it so?

I think your question is very hard to understand.  In D&D, even more so than in comic books, very few things are "permanent."  Are you asking for what would make the condition, "blind" into a reasonable call as a house rule?  Are you asking for some way to be blinded in such a manner that nobody, ever, could possibly reverse it?  Which is likely, as already noted, impossible given wishes and divine power floating around in the mechanics.  

I imagine the "permanently" referred to in the 3rd party source material means "not temporary like something like a Glitterdust spell."  It seems like you're mixing a rules question and a "what is reasonable for my game question."  I don't know what the Quintessential books give you if you are blind, but if being blind isn't really a flaw b/c of other abilities you have, then I'd probably not give a bonus feat out for it.  But, I don't really like flaws to begin w/, nor do I use them, so maybe someone who does would be a better source.

[kevin_video]

No, I'm asking for a flaw. A legit character flaw from UA like Feeble, and all those on the SRD site, and book. I would like Blind to be a flaw. And once again, I will point out that I want everyone to pretend you're level 1 whatever. It doesn't matter that Wish exists, or Remove Blindness/Deafness exists, or anything like that exists. You're level 1. You need to build your character. And you're going to be blind since birth because your character drew that out of the hat. You can't afford those spells a level 1. You don't have access to the spells that could cure you if you're a cleric or wizard at level 1. And in your town, no one's got those kind of capabilities either. You might be able to cure yourself eventually, but you've gotta survive that long. It's not a perfect world. How do you get that extra bonus feat? Or, is it such that you can NEVER get a flaw for blind, despite the fact that there are five variants on homebrew sites, but none of which seem very balanced, and would make anyone want to play a blind character.