My players recently had a bad run at a high level spell caster who managed to crit two of the players with an Eclipse Burst spell. In the loot was a scroll of regenerate.
Can Regenerate cure the blindness since regenerate mentions regrowing a damaged or ruined organ?
There is no damaged or ruined organ involved, so not in this case.
If their eyes had been plucked out, then Regeneration would've worked.
"... blinded by the darkness for an unlimited duration."
But we see here it's also an unlimited ongoing effect (and not a curse, nor a permanent change, etc.) so Dispel Magic should suffice (albeit it has to counteract to succeed). It may take awhile, but they should have access to Dispel Magic of comparable level if facing such high level threats.
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If you're hardcore (read: stupid), you could probably rip out the eyes that are effected by the magical blindness and then cast regenerate. Since those new eyes wouldn't be the ones effected by the magic, you could make an argument for them being able to see.
My team had found the restore senses spell already but the cleric was worried about missing the roll to clear the DC.
I hadn't realized the importance of the unlimited duration of the blindness. This means that the sorcerer with dispel magic can also work on dispelling the effect and not just the cleric.
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It depends on what caused the blindness as to whether or not regenerate would cure it.
Someone stabbed your eyes? Yes, regenerate should fix that. It should fix any kind of physical trauma your eyes received, which may have resulted in blindness.
Blindness induced by magic? Your eyes are perfectly fine, and regenerate has nothing to do. It will do nothing to cure your blindness as it's not the result of a physical ailment.
To me it's weird that the spell causes blindness, but I guess it's only on a critical failure which really shouldn't be very often.
And it's not that different from the blindness spell. Although the wording is weirdly different because blindness says the target is permanently blind while, while eclipse burst says it's an unlimited duration. Those two are basically the same thing, except that Eclipse Burst means it's relying on the magic to sustain the effect while blindness doesn't.
The spell has an unlimited duration, meaning the spell is still in effect on anyone crit failing. You just have to dispel it.
Yes that would be another benefit of the unlimited duration, that a sufficiently powerful dispel attempt could get rid of it, while duration permanent spell like blindness means it's not magic keeping the blindness happening and things like dispel or antimagic fields will do nothing.