Can you Blind Plants?


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If you cast glitterdust on a plant sub-type creature with no eyes will it be blinded?

Had this come up last week in Kingmaker. Wizard hit a tendriculos with glitterdust luckily it made the save but would it have been blinded?


Scipion del Ferro wrote:

If you cast glitterdust on a plant sub-type creature with no eyes will it be blinded?

Had this come up last week in Kingmaker. Wizard hit a tendriculos with glitterdust luckily it made the save but would it have been blinded?

it has low light vision? so therefore can see?


huh. how weird is that?

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Scipion del Ferro wrote:

If you cast glitterdust on a plant sub-type creature with no eyes will it be blinded?

Had this come up last week in Kingmaker. Wizard hit a tendriculos with glitterdust luckily it made the save but would it have been blinded?

Yup. Plant monsters can see, therefore they can be blinded.

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Tanis wrote:
huh. how weird is that?

Not as weird as it might seem, I suspect. Plants don't have eyes, but they can certainly react to light. And once you get monster plants, I don't think it's that much more of a suspension of belief to think of them as being able to see. In fact, it's easier for me to believe a plant can see than to believe a plant can eat people.


James Jacobs wrote:
Not as weird as it might seem, I suspect. Plants don't have eyes, but they can certainly react to light. And once you get monster plants, I don't think it's that much more of a suspension of belief to think of them as being able to see. In fact, it's easier for me to believe a plant can see than to believe a plant can eat people.

If the Venus Fly-Trap had the advanced template i could see it eating people, but it still doesn't have eyes. Guess if i had to call it i'd say Blindsight??

*edit* They do react to light tho, you're right. Interesting.

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