The Gossip Board

[Anastasia]

Well, duh. Naturally. I think that part goes without saying, who am I to point something like that out?

[Carthrat]

The more outright demon something is the less I want to ride it on account of such creatures being ludicrously temperamental, so I'm mostly considering abyssal/anarchic creatures as viable. I do think a Nightmare would be pretty ace, but I'm sure a CE Nightmare is as bad as any demon. Infernals and neutrals I'd consider. If there's such a thing as an abyssal savannah...

Since the abyss is big on harsh slavery I'm also going to keep an eye out for any such markets, where we might be able to buy/liberate a mount.

[Anastasia]

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[Anastasia]

The more outright demon something is the less I want to ride it on account of such creatures being ludicrously temperamental, so I'm mostly considering abyssal/anarchic creatures as viable. I do think a Nightmare would be pretty ace, but I'm sure a CE Nightmare is as bad as any demon. Infernals and neutrals I'd consider. If there's such a thing as an abyssal savannah...

Since the abyss is big on harsh slavery I'm also going to keep an eye out for any such markets, where we might be able to buy/liberate a mount.

With the party alignment, an anarchic or half anarchic creature would fit into the party well enough, as long as it isn't chaotic evil.

I'm pretty sure there's an Abyssal savannah, I know there's a jungle(Demogorgon's level, as a matter of fact!).

[Carthrat]

Don't realllllly want to explore layers other than the top one and the place we're going, doing that seems liable to transform my simple 'acquire a mount' desire into a struggle of epic proportions.

[Anastasia]

Don't realllllly want to explore layers other than the top one and the place we're going, doing that seems liable to transform my simple 'acquire a mount' desire into a struggle of epic proportions.

You think this won't be a struggle and/or clusterfuck of epic proportions by the time you get out as it is?

[Carthrat]

I'm not trying to avoid damage so much as minimize it? <_<

[Anastasia]

Good luck with that. Now help them with those pullies and with trying to brainwash an evil sword, would you?

[Anastasia]

Ah hell with it. Nikkolai, talk to me about your feats before next session.

[Carthrat]

What could go wrong? It's physics at work!

[Anastasia]

You think physics work as you want them to in the Abyss?

[Carthrat]

Gravity worked as expected. Surely this applies to everything else.

[Anastasia]

Just wait until the Abyss decides otherwise.

[Dracos]

I have the perfect mount for Knight.

A Xorn.

[Dracos]

So, really cool item.  Sadly BlindSense instead of Blindsight.  But still cool.

http://www.d20srd.org/srd/specialAbilities.htm 

Anyhow, I read over it this morning trying to get a feel for what it does and doesn't do and its pretty vague because blindsight and blindsense usually are more heavily qualified than lowlight and darkvision.  Those come from your eyes and are LoS 120 feet always on abilities effectively that are pretty binary on being relevant.

Blindsense and Blindsight both tend to have the qualifiers of "Is it always on (passively) or free action (Active, but costs nothing)", What form does it take (Is it magical eyesight?  Is it touch based?  Sound based?  Aura? Other), and whether its LoS or Radius (Usually it is radius but not always~).  This effectively ends up with a wide range of effectiveness:  Ranging from Passive Radius Aura Based (pretty cool) at the high end to Active magical eyesight LoS at the low (hope nobody throws sand in your eyes and that you remember to call out blindsense).

Beyond that, as I understood it, Blindsense means that if someone enters whatever the active area is, I free spot/listen them (No roll auto-success?  Not sure!) and if they're invisible I know what square they are in, but nothing more.  Invisible folks still get all benefits against me.

So kind of wondering what it actually is ending up as and whether my read on what it actually does when it is active is right? :)

My two-cents?  I hope its Passive Radius Aura, which is pretty cool even without being blindsight.  It at least gives sort of a defense against being blinded and a generally 'pretty impossible to sneak up on' radius.  Sound or ground based radius wouldn't be bad either.  Magical eye-vision blind sight is actually pretty pointless and really only matters if an invisible guy is right in front of me, and doesn't give any benefit that Adail going 'invisible guy here' doesn't give.  Item is still cool any which way, but yeah, hoping the blindsense is at least cool blindsense.