You have been blind since birth. As a result, your other senses have become highly refined and sensitive. With this background, your ability to perceive the world around you through sound, smell, taste, touch, and detecting vibrations is excellent. You have developed abilities known as Blindsight and Tremorsense.

Skill Proficiencies: Skill Proficiencies (Pick Two): Perception, Insight, Survival, Investigation, or Medicine.

Tool Proficiencies: You are proficient in use of a staff that can be used as a walking stick OR a clicking device that can be used for echolocation.

Languages: You are fluent in speaking up to three languages of your choice, but you cannot read or write in any language.

Equipment: You start with a staff/walking stick OR a clicking device for echolocation, a set of common clothes, a trinket of the players choice, and a pouch containing 10 GP.

Suggested Characteristics

General:

• Skill Proficiencies (Pick Two): Perception, Insight, Survival, Investigation, or Medicine.
• Walking speed in rough terrain is 1/4 normal walking speed. No disadvantage to stealth checks in rough terrain due to slower walking speed.
• Unhindered by Darkness and Invisibility.
• Immune to Blinded Condition.

Checks & Saving Throws:

• Permanent advantage on perception checks that do not rely on sight, or that rely specifically on hearing, smell, taste, or touch (within reach of 5 ft. for latter two).
• Automatically fails checks and saving throws that rely solely on sight.
• Disadvantage on Investigation checks that rely primarily on sight and minimally on hearing, touch, etc.
• Permanent -2 penalty to dexterity, stealth, and sleight-of-hand checks and saving throws.
• Advantage when rolling against visual Intimidation, Deception, etc.
• Advantage on Insight Checks if target is within 5 ft. of the creature and the target’s heartbeat can be felt and/or heard. No advantage if target is outside 5 ft. range and/or if target has no detectable heartbeat (i.e. undead or incorporeal).
• Proficiency in all Wisdom-based skill checks and saving throws.

Combat:

• Vulnerable to sound-based attacks (i.e. Thunder Damage) and stunned by Deafened Condition.
• If Deafened, attack rolls against creature have advantage, and the creature’s attack rolls have disadvantage.
• No penalty to general attack, spell, damage, and defense rolls.
• Ranged attacks and spells beyond maximum Blindsight and Tremorsense radiuses have disadvantage.
• Advantage on dodge rolls and dexterity saving throws when attacker is within 5 ft.