6 thoughts on “Any thoughts or existing content on handling blind Brainers? Would of course be seeing through the PM.”

  1. I’d ask the player if they want it as just flavor or make it a mechanical thing. If it’s just flavor then I’d treat it like they could see normally and move on. They can’t see more than someone normally could and it would just be a cool flavor thing.

    If they are looking for something with more mechanics involved, then I’d have them roll open your mind and add a few options they could pick about the area around them. In exchange they take a -1 ongoing when doing anything that is easier to do if you could see.

  2. I think that being blind can be handled completely narratively with the standard moves. Maybe they encounter a situation that is only dangerous because they can’t see. Maybe they can’t go ago because they don’t know where to point the shot gun. But mostly there shouldn’t be a need to have special rules.

  4. If they “see” the world like Daredevil (via the maelstrom) you should only have to change your descriptions. Perhaps they can hear the heartbeat of the raider waiting in ambush nearby, but there are probably some things the maelstrom doesn’t want the brainer to see as they are….

  6. appropriate to act under fire navigating in nearly any unfamiliar territory… fire being… well… blind in unfamiliar territory:- there are reasons the blind tend to be shut-ins without special handicap care accessories and civic-financed cosmopolitan conveniences.

    if the psychic maelstrom effectively grants a super-powered normal vision, however… then the individual isn’t really blind, just ‘other-eyed’ or some such… many reptiles are not blind just because they lack photo-receptive cones, they do have heat-sensitive receptors, acute kinetic sense of vibrations, and track by sent with considerable accuracy, combined with such efficiency as to give them functional ‘sight’… just not as most mammals know it.

    so yeah; is it wuxia mendicant daredevil, a crippling post-apocalyptic defect, or something in between?

    The first may change descriptors, give some extra distance on reading people and situations, allow line-of-sight obstacles to be ignored… and even produce amazing feats of spontaneous augury, unburdened by normal sight, rather than crippled by the lack of it…

    The second should cause debilitating embarrassments in daily chores, annoying barriers in casual conversation, and escalate complication stress to even simple tasks… not to mention, triggering occasional bouts of paranoia, despondency, and a sense of being lost…

    Otherwise:- let ’em assume they have a cane with a vibration sensor, caution buzzers in their shoes, a text-to-braille translator rigged out of a calculator and wrist watch, some innocuous and unmentioned animal-companion or spirit-guide… or whatever is necessary to presume normal functionality…  and don’t sweat the details.

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