You have been blind since birth. Whether this has been from a horrible injury or simply that you were born that way, you've never been able to see the world as others do. As a result, your other senses have become highly refined and sensitive. Your ability to perceive the world around you through sound, smell, taste, and touch is excellent. You have developed the ability known as Blindsight.
- Skill Proficiencies: (Pick One): Perception, Insight, Survival, or Medicine
- Tool Proficiencies: You are proficient in use of a staff that can be used as a walking stick that can be used for echolocation.
- Languages: You are fluent in speaking up to two languages of your choice, but you cannot read or write in any language.
- Equipment: You start with a staff/walking stick, a set of common clothes, a trinket of the players choice, and a pouch containing 10 GP.
Feature: Blindsight
Blindsight allows a creature to perceive their surroundings within a specific radius as well as a sighted creature by utilizing their other senses.
- At level 1 your sense of hearing has a radius of 60 ft.
- At level 1 your sense of smell has a radius of 30 ft.
- Your sense of hearing and smell increase by 15 ft. at levels 5, 10, 15, and 20, to a maximum of 120 ft. for hearing, and 90 ft. for smell.
Blindsight Rules:
- Unhindered by Darkness, Invisibility, and illusion spells involving images within blindsight range.
- Disadvantage on checks and saving throws that rely solely on sight.
- Advantage against Intimidation and Deception checks involving sight.
- Advantage on Insight Checks on targets within 5 ft. The creature must have a heartbeat or other auditory cue that can heard. Undead or any other creature without a heart are unaffected.
- Vulnerability to sound-based attacks. (i.e Thunder Damage-based attacks) and becomes disoriented by the Deafened Condition. If you or an ally cast a a spell that would cause the Deafened Condition to enemies within range, you are also Deafened.
- Ranged attacks and spells targeting a creature beyond your maximum Blindsight radius are made at disadvantage. Attacks made against you beyond this radius are made at advantage.
- Attacks made against you are not done so at advantage due being 'unseen'.
- All spells except illusion spells based on an image can be cast normally within your Blindsight radius.
Suggested Characteristics
Being blind isn't always the best. While some may be very optimistic about their lack of sight, others may be angry and bitter about it. Regardless the case, people who are blind can have different personalities and feelings about their situation.
| d8 | Personality Trait |
|---|---|
| 1 | I dream of better things. My lack of sight is a weapon, not a curse. |
| 2 | I wish to make others suffer as I have. If I do not need my sight, then neither do they. |
| 3 | I am always on edge. The slightest change in the environment makes me anxious. |
| 4 | Nothing can shake my optimistic attitude. |
| 5 | I like to live dangerously. My lack of sight does not inhibit my ambitions. |
| 6 | My inability to see has brought with it a sense of inner peace that I try and give to others. |
| 7 | People who walk on egg shells around me irritate me to no end. |
| 8 | My parents were very protective of me so I have very little real world experience. |
| d6 | Ideal |
|---|---|
| 1 | Aspiration. The world is big, but my dreams are bigger. I will make the world a better place. (Lawful) |
| 2 | Charity. I always try to help those in need, no matter what the personal cost. (Good) |
| 3 | Change. The world is boring standing still. I wish to keep moving and hear the sounds of change. (Chaotic) |
| 4 | Power. I will use my heightened senses to grow stronger. (Lawful) |
| 5 | Destruction. I wish to see others suffer as I have. Those who have everything shall know how it feels to have nothing. (Evil) |
| 6 | Enlightenment. I seek to provide those around me with a sense of peace with themselves. (Neutral) |
| d6 | Bond |
|---|---|
| 1 | I seek redemption and nobody is going to stop me even if it destroys me. |
| 2 | I will seek the spread of despair to all those around me. |
| 3 | I owe my life to the people who took me in when my parents died. |
| 4 | I care about only one person. Me. Everything else comes second. |
| 5 | I will do anything to protect my friends and loved ones. |
| 6 | My faith is what drives me. I am nothing without it. |
| d6 | Flaw |
|---|---|
| 1 | I judge others harshly, and myself even more severely. |
| 2 | I put too much trust in those that show even a hint of kindness. |
| 3 | I frequently place myself in dangerous situations with no regards to others. |
| 4 | I am inflexible in my thinking. |
| 5 | I am suspicious of strangers and expect the worst of them. |
| 6 | Once I pick a goal, I become obsessed with it to the detriment of everything else in my life. |
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