I'm currently DM'ing a new group through Lost Mine of Phandelver and one of my players has opted to roll a Dragonborn Paladin. I was reading through the class abilities and had a question regarding Divine Sense.
The ability states: "You know the location of any celestial, fiend, or undead within 60 feet of you that is not behind total cover."
With that in mind, what is the right scenario in which this ability would prove useful to the player? If the player needs to be within 60 feet and the creature cannot be behind full cover, wouldn't the character just see the creature in front of them?
3) it is not otherwise difficult to detect eg. Invisible
Here is one situation I just thought up: the party spots what appears to be a zombie guard near where you believe an undead army is. You approach. Everyone else continues onward, spotting no other zombies. The paladin, however, suddenly detects undead in every direction. “Guys ....”
Many fiends and celestials can turn invisible or even appear as different creatures (example imps remain invisible before attacking in most cases). Could also be helpful in a heavy mist, fog, or area blanketed in smoke if a village is burning, so though limited it has uses. I wouldn't think that fog would count as cover in that context.
Spoiler for LMoP below, with an example of when you can use it:
In the Redbrand Hideout in section 4 there are skeletons. They are not in full cover and do not activate until somebody goes past a certain point. Therefore the paladin can in fact see the skeletons (as can the rest of the party) but they wouldn't necessarily know that they will animate when the trigger happens, for all they know is that this is a tomb and those are skeletons of the past residents of the manor above, which isn't bizarre. If he uses this feature upon seeing the skeletons before they animate, he would then know about them being living, or unliving?, monsters.
I'm currently DM'ing a new group through Lost Mine of Phandelver and one of my players has opted to roll a Dragonborn Paladin. I was reading through the class abilities and had a question regarding Divine Sense.
The ability states: "You know the location of any celestial, fiend, or undead within 60 feet of you that is not behind total cover."
With that in mind, what is the right scenario in which this ability would prove useful to the player? If the player needs to be within 60 feet and the creature cannot be behind full cover, wouldn't the character just see the creature in front of them?
Thank you in advance and Happy Gaming!
I've played a Paladin before and honestly it's a power I forgot I had all the time.
It's also limited in usage so you think about if you want to use it.
I only every really used it if I thought an NPC was a shapeshifter.
Well, sight would be useful if:
1) you are pointed in the right direction
2) you passed the perception check
3) it is not otherwise difficult to detect eg. Invisible
Here is one situation I just thought up: the party spots what appears to be a zombie guard near where you believe an undead army is. You approach. Everyone else continues onward, spotting no other zombies. The paladin, however, suddenly detects undead in every direction. “Guys ....”
Many fiends and celestials can turn invisible or even appear as different creatures (example imps remain invisible before attacking in most cases). Could also be helpful in a heavy mist, fog, or area blanketed in smoke if a village is burning, so though limited it has uses. I wouldn't think that fog would count as cover in that context.
Spoiler for LMoP below, with an example of when you can use it:
In the Redbrand Hideout in section 4 there are skeletons. They are not in full cover and do not activate until somebody goes past a certain point. Therefore the paladin can in fact see the skeletons (as can the rest of the party) but they wouldn't necessarily know that they will animate when the trigger happens, for all they know is that this is a tomb and those are skeletons of the past residents of the manor above, which isn't bizarre. If he uses this feature upon seeing the skeletons before they animate, he would then know about them being living, or unliving?, monsters.
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