Blindness

Blindness is a level 2 necromancy spell. It allows spellcasters to magically  Blind a targeted hostile creature.

Description

 Blind a creature.  Attack Rolls against it have  Advantage and the foe attacks with  Disadvantage.

Properties

Cost

 Action +  Level 2 Spell Slot

Details

 CON Save

 Range: 18 m (60 ft)

At higher levels

Upcasting: Affects an additional target for each spell slot level above 2nd.

Technical details

UID

Target_Blindness

Spell flags

HasHighGroundRangeExtension, HasVerbalComponent, IsHarmful, IsSpell

Condition: Blindness

 Blindness

Duration: 10 turns

 CON Save (Spell save DC)

• Has  Disadvantage on  Attack Rolls. Range of attacks and spells reduced to 3 m (10 ft).
• Attack Rolls against Blinded creatures have  Advantage.
• At the end of each turn, the affected creature rolls a  Constitution Saving Throw against the Spell Save DC of the caster. If successful, the condition is removed.

How to learn

Classes:

• Class level 3: Bard, Cleric, Sorcerer, Wizard, The Fiend, Circle of the Spores (Circle Spell), and Death Domain (Domain Spell)
• Class level 8: Arcane Trickster and Eldritch Knight

Other ways to learn:

• Wizards with a Level 2 Spell Slot can transcribe a  Scroll of Blindness to their spellbooks.

Notes

• See also Blind Immunity.
• Blindness is one of a relatively small number of spells that can apply a disabling effect without requiring  Concentration be maintained.
• The incantation for Blindness is Caeco Te, Latin for "I blind you".

Bugs

• Upcast versions of this spell gain the ability to target multiple creatures, but as the spell lacks the SpellFlag IgnorePreviouslyPickedEntities the same creature can be selected multiple times, requiring a saving throw for each time they are selected.
• The in-game tooltip incorrectly links the word 'Blind' to the  Blinded condition.

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External links

•  Blindness on the Forgotten Realms Wiki