RickAsWritten
2022-03-01, 04:15 PM
Hello fellow Brewers,
I'm restarting my campaign and one of my players asked if they could play as a race of blind elves loosely based on the AppleTV show, See. Blindness is tricky because blindsense is a strict upgrade over regular vision in the sensed area, and then a severe downgrade outside the range. Here is my first pass at a blind elf subrace. Please let me know what you think.
Elf Subrace: Moon Elves of Selena
Ability Score Increase
One ability score of your choice increases by 1 (must be different that your +2).
Born Blind
You can't see, and automatically fail any ability check that requires sight. You are immune to the blinded condition.
Heightened Senses
You have blindsight with a range of 5 feet (blind beyond this radius). Within that range, you can effectively see anything that isn’t behind total cover, even if you’re in complete darkness. Moreover, you can see an invisible creature within that range, unless the creature successfully hides from you.
In addition, you have tremorsense with a range of 30 feet, which can detect and pinpoint the origin of vibrations within a specific radius, provided that you and the source of the vibrations are in contact with the same ground or substance.
Cantrip
You know one cantrip of your choice from the wizard spell list. Wisdom, Intelligence or Charisma is your spellcasting ability for it (choose 1).
Extra Language
You can speak, read, and write one extra language of your choice.
I'm not sure if I went too heavy on the restrictions since blindsense is such an odd rule. As far as I understand it, he will be normal in melee and any ranged attacks he makes within 30 feet (against non-fliers) will be straight rolls, but all ranged attacks will have advantage on him. He is planning on playing a barbarian if that factors into it at all.
Has anyone worked with a blind homebrew or character that can provide input?
As a side note, we used a collective map drawing game to each create one continent/empire of the world so the blind elves make sense conceptually within the world since the player designed a whole empire based on it.
I'm restarting my campaign and one of my players asked if they could play as a race of blind elves loosely based on the AppleTV show, See. Blindness is tricky because blindsense is a strict upgrade over regular vision in the sensed area, and then a severe downgrade outside the range. Here is my first pass at a blind elf subrace. Please let me know what you think.
Elf Subrace: Moon Elves of Selena
Ability Score Increase
One ability score of your choice increases by 1 (must be different that your +2).
Born Blind
You can't see, and automatically fail any ability check that requires sight. You are immune to the blinded condition.
Heightened Senses
You have blindsight with a range of 5 feet (blind beyond this radius). Within that range, you can effectively see anything that isn’t behind total cover, even if you’re in complete darkness. Moreover, you can see an invisible creature within that range, unless the creature successfully hides from you.
In addition, you have tremorsense with a range of 30 feet, which can detect and pinpoint the origin of vibrations within a specific radius, provided that you and the source of the vibrations are in contact with the same ground or substance.
Cantrip
You know one cantrip of your choice from the wizard spell list. Wisdom, Intelligence or Charisma is your spellcasting ability for it (choose 1).
Extra Language
You can speak, read, and write one extra language of your choice.
I'm not sure if I went too heavy on the restrictions since blindsense is such an odd rule. As far as I understand it, he will be normal in melee and any ranged attacks he makes within 30 feet (against non-fliers) will be straight rolls, but all ranged attacks will have advantage on him. He is planning on playing a barbarian if that factors into it at all.
Has anyone worked with a blind homebrew or character that can provide input?
As a side note, we used a collective map drawing game to each create one continent/empire of the world so the blind elves make sense conceptually within the world since the player designed a whole empire based on it.