So my GM has grown tired of my %&#$, and found an efficient way to negate me. We are playing Serpent's Skull and are 10th level. My witch gets blinded. A lot. Virtually every time we fight a spellcaster, i get hit with a blinding spell.
I'm considering Beast Eye for my next hex. Am i correctly understanding the rules? My senses would be transferred to my familiar, and I use his eyes to see..and if i can see with his eyes, I can use my evil eye and other hexes and know where to target my area of effect spells.
My other option is to just keep Remove Blindness prepped constantly. Thoughts?
I doubt you can use evil eye through it, but since you can pinpoint enemy locations, you can use your normal eyes for evil eye (although it will be rather glassy...which may or may not add to its aesthetics)
Overall, it seems like it should work though. Not sure if it is a good trade off (it takes a standard action, so it isn't any more efficient than remove blindness; hex versus a 3rd level slot or two- your choice), but your GM is putting you in an awkward position with metagaming since EVERYTHING does the same opening move (how do they even know you are a witch? Have you tried disguising yourself as a normal porter?)
She's not subtle. This is an ongoing contest between the GM and I. It's been done by an evil cleric who knew the party, and a wizard and now another witch who have been spying on us for a while. Between the sentient parrot and the flying, she is obviously an arcanist of some sort. The cackling is a dead give away.
Your problem is not the Blindness, it's the fact that your GM and yourself don't see eye to eye (pardon the pun). Talk it over. If that doesn't work, your character's not going to have much fun.
She's not subtle. This is an ongoing contest between the GM and I.
This is not a contest. The GM wins, because he has infinite resources at his disposal. It's also a sign of bad GMing, as the game is cooperative, not only between players, but between the players and GM as well.
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Oh we have been having a great time for the last year. Enemy spell casters target my witch as the biggest immediate threat. Combination of evil eye, enervation, and a nasty capstone spell or slumber hex end a lot of fights in a hurry, so to keep the big bads alive and kicking, she has to be negated to make it challenging.
Blindness has come up often enough that I need a reliable way to counter it. Another favorite tactic of his is to endanger innocent NPC's. The witch is currently the only good member of our extremely neutral party, so if she has to yank a slave out of quicksand instead of fighting that drags things out.
My most recent blinder is a higher level witch with another PC's mother as a hostage. I'm not changing alignment, so there's no way to counter threatening innocents, but I want him to come up with a new trick besides blindness
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Haha, as long as you're enjoying it, it's fine. Hmm... Beast Eye definitely seems like it should work, as should the hex Hag's Eye. (Although, Arcane Eye says "it sees exactly as you would see if you were there," so maybe not.) Since Remove Blindness doesn't require a CL check or anything, a scroll of it should be perfectly effective. Both of those take a standard action (at least), so hopefully your GM considers that a sufficient nerf that he won't start crippling you another way.
You also might consider prepping more area-of-effect spells like Cloudkill, Confusion, Waves of Fatigue, or Black Tentacles; summon spells like Summon Monster V; or buffs like Heroism or Death Ward. With a bit of support from your party and familiar, all of them should be reasonably effective even while blind.
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Do you have the strongest Cloak of Resistance +X available to you in order to help make saves against blindness-inducing effects?
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I just hit a group of gillman cavaliers mounted on hippocampi with confusion. There were 6 of them. Only 2 riders and 2 mounts made their saves. And the mounts weren't the ones being ridden. So I got exactly why I was blinded.
Since Remove Blindness doesn't require a CL check or anything, a scroll of it should be perfectly effective. Both of those take a standard action (at least), so hopefully your GM considers that a sufficient nerf that he won't start crippling you another way.
Just make sure you're always holding it. Since your character gets hit with blindness a lot you can easily roleplay it as her being paranoid that she'll get hit with another blindness spell.
And really, if the GM wants to reduce your effectiveness she should use some stuff that is mindless like constructs and undead since some of the witch's most powerful stuff is mind effecting.
Since Remove Blindness doesn't require a CL check or anything, a scroll of it should be perfectly effective. Both of those take a standard action (at least), so hopefully your GM considers that a sufficient nerf that he won't start crippling you another way.Just make sure you're always holding it. Since your character gets hit with blindness a lot you can easily roleplay it as her being paranoid that she'll get hit with another blindness spell.
And really, if the GM wants to reduce your effectiveness she should use some stuff that is mindless like constructs and undead since some of the witch's most powerful stuff is mind effecting.
And it can be roleplayed as being paranoid THAT THEY WANT YOUR MAGIC EYES. You can't have them, THEY ARE MINE!
Because, even if you are a good witch (Glinda, you lying piece of...you knew how to get me home this whole time, and you only set me out to murder your rival, didn't you?!), no one ever said you had to be entirely sane. Really, most of the time, you have to be at least a little touched to agree to promises of power from mysterious sources in a world like this.
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Er... How are you reading the scroll if you're blind?
Er... How are you reading the scroll if you're blind?
Good point, grab a wand or a few potions instead.
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Er... How are you reading the scroll if you're blind?
One rank in Lingustics to get Braille.
Sure it won't work with looted scrolls but custom ordered or home made ones will still do
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I agree with Blackbloodtroll here, but I am going to go into more detail.
If the GM is outright targeting your character with blindness every single encounter, this is really problematic. The problem here is not rules-oriented, or even tactical. The problem is social.
If the GM doesn't know any other way of balancing combat other than blinding your character, this is a problem. You need to talk together to figure out some other solution than neutralizing your character every battle.
Try to make this non-confrontational. "Hey, can we talk? I've noticed a recent pattern in game battles and I'm wondering if we can talk about it."
Avoid using any sort of accusatory language, and acknowledge that your character has a way of shutting down battles. Ask if you two can work together to find an alternate solution to this. There has to be one.
Hmm
It's not every encounter, it's 3/4 of powerful spell casters. Certainly enough to be noticed. We had discussed it previously and it's a great campaign, but he's making me work and I'm trying to make him work too. Blindness and in several cases blind folding has proven an effective tactic, one that I use myself if I can locate a caster. There's not always a spell caster, but he does wind up rebuilding his NPC warrior types to give them a fighting chance against high DC spells/hexes. Mentally immune and/or Elven villains show up too.
And she's not entirely sane. She's a Calistrian who takes revenge really seriously and brutalizes her enemies. But she's very nice.
My d20 rebels on all caster checks to dispel in both games I play in. It's uncanny. Never higher than a 6.