What to do with a blinded archer?

[leo1925]

I say that the best way is to wait until the party hits level 9 and the wizard learns teleport.
Yes the party sucked up big time, the wizard doesn't know neither dispel magic nor remove curse, the orcale doesn't know neither dispel magic nor remove curse nor remove blindness/deafness, the party didn't bought scrolls for such things. I think that the ranger player should wait for a little while* and suffer for being in that party.

*since you said that they can't find a caster or go somewhere where they can find a caster.

[Artanthos]

tocath wrote:

L'Oreal has a great line of hair color products.

Your archer does not have to suffer under a spell of "greater blondness." Within an hour, he could be a redhead, a brunette or even have blue hair.

I've been threatening to dye my daughter's hair blue ever since she went blond.

[Greycloak of Bowness]

Allow the Ranger spell, Keen Senses to partially pierce the blindness? Maybe have it reduce the penalty to 20% concealment.

http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/advanced/spells/keenSenses.html#_keen-se nses

Also allow full functionality with Eagle Eye:
http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/advanced/spells/eagleEye.html#_eagle-eye

As an 8th level ranger, he'll have 3 or 4 castings a day between those two spells. If he has an animal companion, let him fast train the animal to help him walk around when not running one of those spells (or just push him with Handle Animal, which may be doable by taking 10 with the +4 bonus).

There are lots of options for a short term disability like this.

[Devastation Bob]

Wandering NPC with an agenda that also opposes the antagonists, but not necessarily in a way that the party would like. Offers to cure the ranger for a favor to be named later.

[Stubs McKenzie]

In my opinion, anything that PCs can do, NPCs can do too, and vise versa (mostly... no you cant be a dragon just because that dragon is a dragon... stop being silly)

I would be quite upset if I caught a BBEG with that one specific spell that he didn't have a counter for, only to be told "Yeah well, that was going to make it too hard for him, and I thought this fight was going to be harder, so from now on, that one spell that doesn't cure anything normally cures this specific effect."

Play it out. They got caught with their pants down. Give them a scroll of dispel next session, and see if the roll is good enough? You absolutely can change/add items to loot, and it is the perfect way to change his fate without saying "whoops".