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Stormchild (Ex): At 3rd level, you gain resist electricity 5 and
resist sonic 5, and treat wind effects as being one step less
severe. At 9th level, you treat wind effects as being two steps
less severe and gain blindsense 60 feet against concealment
from natural or magical fog, mist, or weather effects.
How doe that last part of the class ability work exactly? How does blindsense work against ANYTHING? Does it only work when you are in those weather conditions? or when targets you could potentially perceive are in those conditions?
If you are in a fog cloud, and a nearby enemy is not, can you perceive them via blindsense?
It just seems like a weird way to write what would otherwise be a passive ability.
Stormchild (Ex): At 3rd level, you gain resist electricity 5 and
resist sonic 5, and treat wind effects as being one step less
severe. At 9th level, you treat wind effects as being two steps
less severe and gain blindsense 60 feet against concealment
from natural or magical fog, mist, or weather effects.How doe that last part of the class ability work exactly? How does blindsense work against ANYTHING? Does it only work when you are in those weather conditions? or when targets you could potentially perceive are in those conditions?
If you are in a fog cloud, and a nearby enemy is not, can you perceive them via blindsense?
It just seems like a weird way to write what would otherwise be a passive ability.
I would guess that there's a 60' bubble around you where you can perceive creatures as the blindsense ability if that concealment comes from any of the listed conditions. I don't think the sorcerer has to be inside the cloud, he can just sense out to 60 feet away in terms of negating concealment caused by natural weather. An invisible creature? no luck. A creature inside an obscuring mist spell, gotcha.
An invisible creature? no luck. A creature inside an obscuring mist spell, gotcha.
That is so weird.
I don't think it should be written as blindsense. It isn't really blindsense. It's something that sort of works like it in some ways but not in others. It should be written as its own thing.