Questions tagged [special-senses]
For questions about special senses in RPGs besides the ones most creatures share, especially those that playable characters normally lack. (Sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch are the main senses common to most creatures, though balance, temperature, and pain are often also included among definitions of senses.) Such special senses may include the ability to see in the dark, see into other planes, or sense one's surroundings without being able to see.
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Teleport action and blindsight [duplicate]
I would like to create a monster that have a blindsight of 120 feet and that is blind beyond this radius. Can I give this monster a teleportation action? This action is usually described as follows (...
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Is the Heatvision spell dependent on regular vision?
The 3rd-rank Heatvision spell from Rage of Elements gives a willing creature 60 feet of infrared vision as a precise sense. The spell is called Heatvision, the sense is gives is called infrared vision,...
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Can Truesight see through an area that is heavily obscured?
Truesight states:
A monster with truesight can ... see in normal and magical darkness, see invisible creatures and objects, [and] automatically detect visual illusions ...
Heavily obscured is ...
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Making a combat-viable blind PC
A streamer I found was talking about the P2E Reading Ring, which is designed to give blind characters a way to read in-game. That got me wondering: How would one go about making a combat-viable PC who ...
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What happens when an ancestry with low-light vision is aiurvaran or dromaar heritage?
With the Pathfinder 2e Remaster, all ancestries can be Aiuvarin or Dromaar (mixed elven or orcish heritage).
Aiuvaran says,
You have elves, or possibly other aiuvarins, in your family tree. You have ...
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How does a Cloak of Displacement interact with truesight/blindsight?
Cloak of Displacement:
While you wear this cloak, it projects an illusion that makes you appear to be standing in a place near your actual location, causing any creature to have disadvantage on ...
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Is lifesense a precise sense, or imprecise?
The question has come up in one of my chats, and I could not find an answer after a search of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook and Bestiary for 'precise' or 'lifesense'.
Aiudara wraiths (...
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Do you still need to perceive a hidden transformed creature before Truesight shows the creature for what it really is?
If a druid wildshapes he magically changes his physical appearance. Let's say he turns into a spider.
If he uses "pass without a trace" he gets flat +10 stealth.
If he then proceeds to cling ...
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Would blindsight allow a blinded caster to cast spells that specify the target as a creature "that you can see"? [duplicate]
Would blindsight allow a blinded caster to cast spells that specify the target as a creature "that you can see"?
Would blindsight be able to substitute for the requirement of having to see a ...
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If I am using my familiar's special sense to see and a creature is attacking me that I see with my familiar, would they get advantage?
Similar to the following:
Can I act normally while seeing through my familiar's eyes, per the Find Familiar spell?
Can a spell caster attack and/or cast spells while using a familiar's senses?...
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How does Major Image interact with Blind Fighting?
The rules seem to give little indication if the blindsight gained by the Fighter's Blind Fighting is actually able to automatically foil high-level illusions (such as Major Image). But this text from ...
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Does Meld Into Stone prevent Intellect Devourer attacks?
Intellect Devourers have Detect Sentience, which lets them psychically know where someone is through walls. They have Multiattack for Claws and Devour Intellect. The latter requires sight, and their ...
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Do true dragons use echolocation?
I know true dragons have Blindsight, but in terms of lore, how does it work? Do they use echolocation? Something else? Or has it not been specified?
I am most interested in 5e lore, but I'm definitely ...
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Can Blindsight bridge magical Darkness?
If you are in an area of magical darkness, and you have limited range blindsight, you will be able to perceive normally within that radius, as per the definition of blindsight:
A monster with ...
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Can scrolls be read using Blindsense?
Can a character that is naturally blind but has blindsense read a scroll or a magic book to learn a spell? What about if you cast Read Magic?
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