Look at what you've done. You spoiled it. You have nobody to blame but yourself. Go sit and think about your actions.
Don't be mean. Rudeness is a vicious cycle, and it has to stop somewhere. Exceptions for things that are funny. Go to the current Competition of the Finest 'Brews! It's a cool place where cool people make cool things.
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I mean, if you can manage to make a CON save stick against a near 20 save modifier, I think you deserve the moment.
Yeah, but the real problem is: fog cloud (and other non-darkness sight blockers) block truesight but not blindsight. That doesn't have a save. The authors seem to have thought that truesight is a simple upgrade over blindsight, but it's actually a sidegrade, each of them has capabilities the other does not.
I mean, if you can manage to make a CON save stick against a near 20 save modifier, I think you deserve the moment.
Yeah, but the real problem is: fog cloud (and other non-darkness sight blockers) block truesight but not blindsight. That doesn't have a save. The authors seem to have thought that truesight is a simple upgrade over blindsight, but it's actually a sidegrade, each of them has capabilities the other does not.
Gargantuan creatures are expressly “at least” 20ft to a side, and since Ancient Dragons are already Gargantuan, it’s fair to bump greatwyrms up by 5-10 ft. And just like that, pretty much all the cloud effects don’t cover them. Plus they already have the ability to move as a Legendary Action, so the best a party can manage is probably hiding and blinding themselves. Honestly it couldn’t hurt to add the blindsight features to truesight, but the example everyone cites is functionally a distinction without a difference
Gargantuan creatures are expressly “at least” 20ft to a side, and since Ancient Dragons are already Gargantuan, it’s fair to bump greatwyrms up by 5-10 ft. And just like that, pretty much all the cloud effects don’t cover them. Plus they already have the ability to move as a Legendary Action, so the best a party can manage is probably hiding and blinding themselves. Honestly it couldn’t hurt to add the blindsight features to truesight, but the example everyone cites is functionally a distinction without a difference
There are some quite large sight blocking abilities out there (for example, a level 5 fog cloud is 100' radius). In practice this is only particularly relevant for spellcasting dragons because none of their base abilities require vision and they have passive perception scores in the 20s, but that doesn't mean a significant capability hasn't been lost by removing blindsight.
How would the Blinded condition affect a creature with truesight?
Begin and end with the fiction.
How was the creature blinded? If a bag was thrown over their head then their truesight won't help them - they are blinded. If they are in an area of darkness or illusion, then truesight lets them see through it - they are not blinded.
Yeah, this one is pretty straightforward. Truesight specifies how your sight sense functions while you can see things. But if you cannot see you are just blinded.
The Blinded condition overrides Truesight. Granted, in practice very few creatures with Truesight won’t also have a very high CON save, Magic Resistance, and/or immunity to the Blinded condition.
Yeah, this one is pretty straightforward. Truesight specifies how your sight sense functions while you can see things. But if you cannot see you are just blinded.
This is how I look at it (pun intended) as well. Truesight is a vision enhancer. When blinded, you have no vision to enhance.
How would the Blinded condition affect a creature with truesight?
It'd blind them.
Look at what you've done. You spoiled it. You have nobody to blame but yourself. Go sit and think about your actions.
Don't be mean. Rudeness is a vicious cycle, and it has to stop somewhere. Exceptions for things that are funny.
Go to the current Competition of the Finest 'Brews! It's a cool place where cool people make cool things.
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Unless it also has blindsight. Though this seems to have evaded the writers of FToD, since the greatwyrms have truesight and do not have blindsight.
Thanks!
I mean, if you can manage to make a CON save stick against a near 20 save modifier, I think you deserve the moment.
Yeah, but the real problem is: fog cloud (and other non-darkness sight blockers) block truesight but not blindsight. That doesn't have a save. The authors seem to have thought that truesight is a simple upgrade over blindsight, but it's actually a sidegrade, each of them has capabilities the other does not.
Gargantuan creatures are expressly “at least” 20ft to a side, and since Ancient Dragons are already Gargantuan, it’s fair to bump greatwyrms up by 5-10 ft. And just like that, pretty much all the cloud effects don’t cover them. Plus they already have the ability to move as a Legendary Action, so the best a party can manage is probably hiding and blinding themselves. Honestly it couldn’t hurt to add the blindsight features to truesight, but the example everyone cites is functionally a distinction without a difference
There are some quite large sight blocking abilities out there (for example, a level 5 fog cloud is 100' radius). In practice this is only particularly relevant for spellcasting dragons because none of their base abilities require vision and they have passive perception scores in the 20s, but that doesn't mean a significant capability hasn't been lost by removing blindsight.
Huh, I’d forgotten that Fog Cloud could be upcast.
I think the only time I've used that feature was ganking a death tyrant with a 6th level party.
Begin and end with the fiction.
How was the creature blinded? If a bag was thrown over their head then their truesight won't help them - they are blinded. If they are in an area of darkness or illusion, then truesight lets them see through it - they are not blinded.
I really meant the spell Blindness/Deafness.
Yeah, this one is pretty straightforward. Truesight specifies how your sight sense functions while you can see things. But if you cannot see you are just blinded.
The Blinded condition overrides Truesight. Granted, in practice very few creatures with Truesight won’t also have a very high CON save, Magic Resistance, and/or immunity to the Blinded condition.
This is how I look at it (pun intended) as well. Truesight is a vision enhancer. When blinded, you have no vision to enhance.
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I agree with other posters here. The blindess spell removes your sight. Whether is is normal sight or true sight, it is still removed.