O, just tell him about your blind Drow!

Who says a blind person can not fight, I would bet a 100 percent chance...if a shaolin monk was blind, I bet you he could still put up an incredible fight against the best of the martial arts would right now. As for a blind character only class I could see would be a monk for these reasons. A ranger... I am pretty sure of might be hard to tell if he is for example between a mother bear and her cubs etc... I just dont see it. Where as a monk is pure disapline.

true but a monk first has a incredible amount of disapline, in fact some can even catch arrows, when you are blind your other senses highten. The best way to change the odds would be make a lot of sound and drop a stink bomb :P

Being blind is an ~incredible~ disadvantage. Blind people tended to die very quickly on the field of battle.

People tend to die when they've been hit a few thousand times by swords, and potions don't tend to instantly heal wounds either.

Strange. Oh look, it's a game.

Blinded creatures have a 50% miss chance and a -4 penalty to all attack rolls, discipline, hide, move silently, open lock, parry, pick pocket, set trap and tumble.

Daredevil? Daredevil got all of his senses buffed, not only Epic skill focus (Listen) and a permanent Amplify spell.

Who says a blind person can not fight, I would bet a 100 percent chance...if a shaolin monk was blind, I bet you he could still put up an incredible fight against the best of the martial arts would right now. As for a blind character only class I could see would be a monk for these reasons. A ranger... I am pretty sure of might be hard to tell if he is for example between a mother bear and her cubs etc... I just dont see it. Where as a monk is pure disapline.

Daredevil, anyone? Has his advantages in a fight, but disadvantages in other situations.

I actually play my character a bit like that. Funny thing is, I didn't have a clue of any Daredevils when I created her...

There is a really cool Japanese movie about an old blind samurai who sounds like what you're after... anyone remember the name?

the blind samurai was zatoichi (think thats spelled right)

Go for mute or deaf if you really want to play a handicap. But if you play mute, actually try to describe what you are motioning with your hands and facial expression. I've done that on another server and it was quite funny. But don't do that *writes: blahblah* or *hands him note: blah blah*. Thats very lame.

Go for mute or deaf if you really want to play a handicap. But if you play mute, actually try to describe what you are motioning with your hands and facial expression. I've done that on another server and it was quite funny. But don't do that *writes: blahblah* or *hands him note: blah blah*. Thats very lame.

Thats why I suggested a mute with a telepathic link with another character, if you find somebody else willing to RP your voice.

Duncan

Go for mute or deaf if you really want to play a handicap. But if you play mute, actually try to describe what you are motioning with your hands and facial expression. I've done that on another server and it was quite funny. But don't do that *writes: blahblah* or *hands him note: blah blah*. Thats very lame.

first of all, have any of you read drizzt novels? The ranger who was master of drizzt was blind, and he used his owl to locate his enemies and shoot them with his arrows. The owl would go on top of the enemy and make noise.

second of all, don't rangers and druids get some sort of supernatural link (be it empathic or telepathic) to their animal companions? The animal wouldn't have to be stereotypical guide dog anyway. with training, it could be any animal the ranger have had friendship with.

Well, it's fantasy. Daredevil can fight with his ears, too. It may not be realistic, but I wouldn't think it's out of the question either.

have you ever noticed that those books are part of Forgotten realms and so is Amia, and people tend to have superhuman abilities in both? Real life physics generally apply, but when you are talking about a character with 10 levels or more...

and its called "Fantasy" meaning, not real!

104 listen (as in a check resulting in this) is about good enough to hear someone's heartbeat at 120 cm (I think it was jameslocke I sent the mathematics to as a request for my drow).
To put it another way, a character with 100 listen can hear ad understand, on average a whisper 850 feet away.

This kind of stuff always reeked of BS to me. If you are concentrating and picking that kind of sound up, if someone just speaks to you and is like 2 feet away, it would blow out your ears!

Your omh meter...Dude, that is a machine.

Also, most multimeter also have different levels you choose. You pick the one ohm level and it detects with higher accuracy values of <1 ohm. Anything higher causes an error.

Your analogy was kind of straight up bad.

It is just logic getting in the way saying that if you are picking up the pebble across the street falling on top of a hay stack, the merchant two stalls over will be blowing out your ears when he cries out. I don't mind thought since once can argue a character can learn to drown out other sounds. Magic and DnD characters and all that.

There was a blind fellow worked in the kitchen at a restaurant I worked in. He got along just fine all day long prepared all his food took everything from the kitchen to the dish room without an ounce of help. Even cleaned his area spotlessly when finished. If the OP'er wants to play someone blind who has developed his sense of survival over years of being blind in a world of epic abilities I find the prospect to be completely believable. Think of the number of people who drop balls of darkness on themselves just to get the upperhand against someone who is accustomed to using their eyes. They are good at this and are only trained at it. now Imagine someone who isnt just trained but lives his every waking moment without the use of eyes. I think he would have an advantage over those who are sighted. Doesnt the master always tell the student "Do no trust your eyes, they can decieve you." Anywho that's both of my two cents worth.