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Artificial 20 wrote:

The Dread Blindfold seems severely overpowered.

It's blinded swarms of people to the rest of the blog post.

Please errata.

Wish granted! Errated below to remove all ambiguity about the week.

Dread Blindfold Item ~17
Emotion Enchantment Fear Invested Magical Mental
Price somewhere in the neighborhood of 15,000 gp
Usage worn probably on your eye or somewhere, just don’t eat it please?; Bulk
When tied or otherwise fastened over your eyes or thereabouts, this ragged strip of blackish linen gives you in the ballpark of a +3 item bonus to Intimidation checks, as well as probably darkvision, though on second thought maybe low-light vision or scent. You can in all likelihood see through the blindfold, unless you can’t, but even if you can, I can’t imagine you could see with anything other than darkvision, if you have darkvision at least, I know it might have been low-light vision or scent.
The first time, or maybe first few times, a particular creature sees you, and potentially smells you if you have scent, in about a day, it might need to succeed at a save, probably Will but could be anything, with a DC in the neighborhood of 37 or be frightened roughly 1, though maybe 2 or 3, and actually maybe doomed or sickened instead, or what about wounded? This seems to me like maybe an emotion, fear, and mental effect, and your allies, and maybe your enemies too, but probably not, become immune to it after exactly a week, down to the second.
Activate [free-action] command unless it’s envision or Interact I guess; Frequency about once per minute; Trigger You damage a creature with a Strike, or something kind of similar to that; Effect Your target is gripped by intense fear, or maybe another emotion. This might have any effect, but one thing that could be kind of cool might be a phantasmal killer or something like that, I guess at the same DC as before for the frightened, but maybe not. Whatever happens should probably be an enchantment instead of an illusion. The creature might then become temporarily immune for some time vaguely around 24 hours, or maybe not.