In what way does Blindsight compliment Truesight?
While the definitions are quite clear, Blindsight being: A monster with blindsight can perceive its surroundings without relying on sight, within a specific radius. Creatures without eyes, such as...
View Article5e: Does Blindsight detect a scrying sensor?
My party’s going to be encountering an Elder Oblex that’s gained more sentience than usual. The party has a mirror of Scrying (cast once per day without components/slots). They’re wanting to use said...
View ArticleDo crabs have blindsight out of water?
A wizard can choose a crab as a familiar, and crabs have a blindsight of 30ft and are amphibian. I can understand why crabs would have blindsight in water, as they can notice movement in the water and...
View ArticleCan a creature with blindsight see another creature that is Heavily Obscured?
If a creature is Heavily Obscured, can it be seen normally by a creature with blindsight? More specifically, will a creature with blindsight have disadvantage on attacks against the heavily obscured...
View ArticleDoes a creature possessed by intellect devourer have blindsight?
The intellect devourer’s feature Body Thief says the following: While inside a creature, the intellect devourer has total cover against attacks and other effects originating outside its host. The...
View ArticleDoes Blindsight detect invisibility?
Blindsight is described as using your other senses to detect your surroundings. Now, if someone invisible walked into my blindsight zone, would I be able to detect him, because he is only hidden from...
View ArticleWhen an invisible character leaves a blindsight creature’s reach, does the...
A character in the party cast Invisibility on herself, making her invisible. She then tried to move past a Giant Spider, which has Blindsight 10 ft. Per “Does Blindsight detect Invisibility?” the...
View ArticleDoes the Arcane Archer’s Shadow Arrow inhibit blindsight, tremorsense, and/or...
Shadow Arrow: You weave illusion magic into your arrow, causing it to occlude your foe’s vision with shadows. The creature hit by the arrow takes an extra 2d6 psychic damage, and it must succeed on a...
View ArticleCan a Blinded caster with Blindsight use spells that require them to see the...
The situation I have in mind is the following: An epic battle ensues between a Young Green Dragon (caster variant) and a Purple Worm. The Purple Worm swallows the dragon; meanwhile, the dragon has...
View ArticleCan a shapechanged quasit use the blindsight of the bat form?
The stat block of the quasit gives under the shapechanger trait: Its statistics are the same in each form, except for the speed changes noted. So does a quasit will not have the traits of the...
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