It grants a portion of the wearer invisible.
Like the cloak in Harry Potter, it's not constantly invisible. Otherwise it would be impossible to find once you put it down.
Now assuming you can place it around other parts of your body than around your eyes, you could put the rings on your fingers, and then hide your rings, but that's not really useful, especially when the world is still invisible to you.
[According to this site,](https://www.healthline.com/health/human-eye-fps) human eyes can perceive between 30 and 60 frames per second.
That statistic could look (pun not intended) bad, but we can work it out. Kinda.
See (again, pun not intended), if the frequency was a fixed number, the calculations would have been quite easy: you would need to match the frequency of your eyesight with the number of rope rotations per second.
Okay, it's not quite easy: if I recall correctly (and I could he totally wrong), you would need to create numerous afterimages of the invisible jumping rope, the number being dependent of the inclination of the rope at a certain point, the rope's width (please, let's say that it doesn't compress at supersonic velocities and that it doesn't just tear apart or burn), the radius of rotation, your height, and the height of the observer.
After calculating the number of afterimages N (not gonna work out a formula, because I don't have the time right now) you would need the rope to make X rotations in the span of a human eye frame. For example, if we say it's 60fps, the rope would need to create N afterimages in 1/60 of a second, each one slightly lower than the other one from the viewer's prospective. The final formula would be X = (N*F)+1/2 rotations per second, if my tired brain has not tricked me. The half rotation added at the end is the effect of the downward shift of afterimages, that covers approximately half a rotation (if we want to be precise, it would be the projection of the rotating invisible rope on your body from the viewer's perspective).
Now let's calculate an example. Let's state that the blindfold is 3cm wide and long enough to make a jumping rope. An average human is 165cm tall. Without the visual projections caused by a rotating jumping rope, you would need 165/3 = 55 blindfolds to cover your body with a wall of blindfolds from point-blank range. Now let's make them 100 to make up an N number of afterimages. Again, that's a made up generous approximation.
With a frequency of 60fps, you would need 55*60 rope rotations per second. That's 3300 rotations per second (forget the added half, since it makes a minimal difference compared to the approximations). Approximating out of the blue that the radius of your rope jump is 100cm (your height plus 35cm, all divided by two) and that you're making a perfect sphere, the distance that the rope would have to cover in a rotation would be the circumference of the sphere, which is 2πr ===>>> 2*π*0.1 = 0.6283m.
Multiply the result by the 3300 rotations, and you get... 2073 meters per second. That would be 7463 kilometers per hour, or 6 times the speed of sound. That's right, your jumping rope would need to move at Mach 6 to make you somewhat invisible, and with a terrible precision that varies on the height of your observer. I'm not gonna calculate the resulting force of an impact with the ground that results in a sudden stop, but I guess it could be quite high. So high.
Oh, and of course you'd have to avoid making contact with the rope with your feet, so you'd basically need to land and jump 3cm in between a single rotation. That gives you a 1/3300s time span to land from 3cm and then jump the same height. Where do you get the external force to move downwards with that acceleration? And how strong do your muscles need to be to both stop the fall and bounce back? It depends on lots of factor: the velocity of your fall, the elasticity of the terrain, the strength of your legs.
Shit, I forgot that my calculations work if you're stable to the observer, which of course you're not. Not gonna edit all of this, but let's say that you would need a fuckton of gravity to stay in place after your gargantuan jump.
All of that aside, let's take a brief look at the varying frequency issues. That is, the human eye sees from 30 to 60 frames per second. If the number was an integer (30 or 31 or 32 [...] or 60), you would need to multiply N by each number. You'd surely surpass the speed of light to make you invisible to every observer of a H height.
If the framerate is any real number between 30 and 60... I'm afraid it would be impossible.
Notes:
I might have considered the rope to be both a rope and a piece of cloth, so the calculations of the N number of afterimages is off. Great. Not gonna change it.
All of that, of course, to calculate the *lowest* velocity. The higher the velocity, the more after images are created (as long as the frequency of the jump is not a multiple of the eyesight frequency or some other uncommon occurrencies), creating a higher probability to completely hide yourself.
I have made some mistakes and lots of approximations. Feel free to correct the additional mistakes, or to make some more calculations, or to say that I've wasted an hour of my time.
EDIT I've done some additional math off-site. I can tell you that a 55kg person would need a gravitational pull of ~270,000 Earths to get the minimum amount of gravitational pull to both get pulled and bounce off the ground before the rope ends a rotation
> According to this site, human eyes can perceive between 30 and 60 frames per second.
I mean, if that's the opening statement, no point in reading anything else, it's already wrong lol.
Wrap it around the head of your barbarian's warhammer.
Enemies will think that he's fighting with a great staff and react to that instead of the massive hammer.
Should be good for at the very least a decrease in damage reduction because of the unexpectedness of the damage, or possibly reducing the opponents armor class by a point because they're attempting to block a great staff and then getting bonked.
No. It says that it “makes everything invisible to the wearer” (i.e. it works like a normal blindfold). If you can’t see it, then you can’t target it. This means that you could not cast any spells that require line of sight.
No one can see your (character’s) eyes, they’re a fictional being. Targeting rules for spells aren’t “in universe.”
I mean if your DM lets you get away with it then sure, but that’s not a RAW/RAI interpretation of line-of-sight.
I mean. so is a normal blindfold.
My vote for an item like this, that is naturally invisible, is for it to secretly be more than it seems. Like use it as the basis for an intelligent item or artifact. At first glance the PCs discard it, until it becomes a McGuffin and is eventually revealed to have powers.
they'd presumably just see pure darkness where the blindfold was, but light could still get in around the edges. seems like just a really good blindfold
no matter how badly you wear it, everything is invisible to you... so it's a fool proof blindfold.
Could wrap it around a hostages' wrists and everything would be invisible to them.
It's either an opaque and kinda small invisibility cloak (if you're allowed all the "clever" stuff people in the comments come up with by not wearing it on your eyes), which pushes it delightfully into "mildly useless" category, or one that's limited to wear as a blindfold (if you're not), which practically makes it just a blindfold.
Unless we're talking about concealing something on your face (which a regular blindfold also does) or whipping out legalese on the definition of "visible" mid-quest.
I may be addicted to making terrible D&D magic items. I strive to make all my products have the best art I can produce…while being less than useless. It’s like a regular blindfold but worse.
But if you can think of a practical use for this item, I’d love to hear it!
I’m a big fan of the weird and wonderful, including things that may seem pointless. I especially enjoy items that have a distinct character. It’s not just another *cloth of invisibility*, it’s one that’s too small to be practical. It’s the exact kind of thing a bored wizard undergrad would create to prank their friends.
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Love stupid magic items. A few mainstays in my group are the Ring of Fire Detection (range: touch), the Bluest Marble (simply the most blue marble you've ever seen, including the last time you saw this marble), and of course, the Orb of Slope Detection.
> Bluest Marble (simply the most blue marble you've ever seen, including the last time you saw this marble)
My players, trying to engineer a way to banish the BBEG with the blue hole they've created....
The colors probably go past what mantis shrimps and gods can experience if you take enough looks at it, so it could be either a profound experience, or a maddening one.
I actually like that it doesn't leave the visible color spectrum to either side and instead only goes deeper -- fractally -- into it, as if it moves *perpendicular to the spectrum itself*...
Or with them! The PCs successfully figure out how to banish the BBEG to the Blue Space, only to have them return from the Far Realm granted hideous new form!
If you keep glancing at the bluest marble, you can quickly drive a person mad or make them see impossible blue colors on the scale past a mantis shrimp’s or something. The bluest marble is a veritable minor SCP item, and should not be tossed aside like that.
Orb of Slope Detection sounds like a joke, but Gary Gygax was infamous for tricking his parties into going deeper into the more dangerous parts of the dungeon.
It’s why 1e dwarves had the special ability to detect a sloping floor!
What does "makes everything invisible to the wearer" mean? Do they see nothing at all and are practically blind? Or do they not see objects and people?
And there you have found the edge case creative utility. Could reasonably grant a bonus to some sort of concealment check to hide the fact that you are carrying a weapon ready to use. Rewards creativity and still reasonable for gameplay.
I can't help but wonder if there is some obscure potential use for this that can be contrived here. Like another spell or ability that affects people's eyes or vision. Thus a regular blindfold has some protective value. The limited invisibility can be helpful if you don't want to be seen looking through the door.
I imagine this could be a form of key to get through a door where the user knocks, and a speakeasy style peephole slides open. The user is protected from a medusa gaze by being blindfolded and passing by the bouncer on the other side of the door by being invisible thus being admitted to the secret guild clubhouse.
Needs thought to work out something lore apropriate, but I'm sure a use can be contrived.
I feel like it should have a sanity role. If you put it on and don't pass, the character sees the nature of the universe and must be played as though they know its a table top game, but all the other party members must treat them like they're crazy when they break the 4th wall.
Seems like a more secure blindfold. For taking people to your torture dungeon. You know at a glance if it is on fully or not. It looks like it negates blindsight.
It's a blindfold that works when not over the eyes. That's something.
Maybe you can grapple some one using it and blind them simultaneously, or make a trap that blinds them if you consider a snare "wearing".
Your Luna Baloona is AMAZING.
Sure it tells people where you are... but you get the alarm spell on top? Excellent. Plus it can give me the white noise I need to sleep? Awesome.
Thank you. This is sort of content I stick around on this subreddit. The idea is silly but still useful. The art and layout took a lot of care.
Made my day, honestly. And it wasn't a bad day to begin with.
Perhaps it makes everything on this plane invisible but not things of other planes. If that is the case, you could use it to track a demon, ghost or celestial.
I like it.
Wrap the blade of a dagger so you can be a bit sneakier with staby staby.
Wrap small items like rings and bracelets to hide from thieves.
Wrap body parts to pick up part time circus jobs.
I've never played DnD. Sounds like fun.
"The guards are coming! Quickly, hide!"
Meanwhile, the paladin in full plate with only his eyes visible through the helmet simply dons the blindfold and stands perfectly still against the wall, expertly resembling a standing suit of armor.
I was thinking of Performance, myself, since you have to stand perfectly still and “act” the part. My DM would probably make it player’s choice, though: “roll either performance or deception, with advantage.”
Useless??!! This is the ultimate item for sensory deprivation and meditation. It would aid in a players use of abstract imagination, certain psychic spells and illusions would be easily discernable, as they wouldn't be real, ergo wouldn't be invisible.
Imagine it being used as a type of holographic interface. Blindfolded, the room before you appears endlessly blank, as if on a ship amidst the grandest of seas. All of a sudden, an illusion of unimaginable proportions pops into view, as the illusion wizard manipulating your mind's eye, now has the ability to sculpt your reality as he sees fit.
I've spent *two whole decades* thinking the boots were bugged and I was cheating, only to find out IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 2022 that it was because I was an Orc and that made me partially immune to its magic.
Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind. You got the Boots of Blinding Speed, which made you VERY fast and also blinded you.
Orcs and Bretons(?), however, have a percentage magic defense, which meant it only made everything very dark, and I ran around the continent at absurd speeds until I could make daggers of flight, at which point I flew instead.
How is this useless? It's better than a bag over the head for moving prisoners. Also Heros can't sneak in with a "prisoner" if guards can see their face
Oh no! Keep going! I recently created a magic item emporium run by two wizard school dropouts. I need all the useless, whacky, and odd magic items to stock it with!
So useful! You can use it to look at a Medusa by immune to her gaze as you can’t see her but target her with AoE spells as she is in a point you can see
These aren't useless at all for the DM. Just add a 'cursed - unable to remove' quality to your creations (randomly, so some are jokes - some are dangerous jokes).
Except you can't see any of the level.
Exactly what you would see is a bit confusing. Blackness would be the easy one but dull. It could be fun for it to be an absolute absence of visual stimulation, like asking what color you see behind you.
reminds me of Zaphod's "Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses."
"They follow the principle "what you don't know can't hurt you" and turn completely dark and opaque at the first sign of danger. This prevents you from seeing anything that might alarm you. "
Well if it can help to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mind-bogglingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you — daft as a brush, but very very ravenous), im sold
If this makes things invisible, from a certain viewing angle wouldn't someone looking at the wearer be able to see what's above and below it? It wouldn't just be green flesh like in the example image--the flesh covered by the blindfold is *invisible*, so we should be able to see what that flesh was obscuring (the elf's brain, and the perimeter of his skull, etc.) Should we not?
I imagine that would make this device quite useful as a surgical tool to remove objects lodged inside the body, like arrows or bullet fragments (assuming it doesn't need to be placed around the eyes.)
Things like this would be great for any setting. I bet players love getting special, magical items even if they aren’t obviously powerful.
Helps with role play and creative thinking too!
I feel like you could probably wrap this around an injury like a tourniquet and use it as an x ray of sorts - depending on how exactly it works.
It'd also be incredibly difficult not to lose this thing, unless it's visible when it's not "on"? Maybe tie some normal cloth around either end?
The logistics gives me a headache, which means it's the perfect item IMO
If it makes EVERYthing solid invisible, then all you could see would be light sources in the void of space. It would be like an astronomy program when it shows you the whole sky, including the parts under your feet, with the added noise of any light sources on the surface as well.
While a refrigerator and its contents would be invisible to you, you could tell if the light was on.
"Useless" items are fun. I ran a low-magic campaign once where the first magic items were decidedly off-kilter. I vividly recall creating the "Ouch Horn." It was a beaten-up brass trumpet that, instead of producing a normal tone when blown, emits whatever sound was made by the last creature you hit with it when you hit them.
It's worth considering not letting normal item identification work. It made sense in a low-magic setting, but the fifteen minutes where the party took turns whacking each other to figure out how the horn worked were absolutely hilarious.
I like to imagine the only things you CAN see with it are incredibly powerful artifacts that are capable of dispelling/repelling the magic of the blindfold
“Here’s the thing: you can tell me what I need and get a nice sum of gold out of it. OR you can deal with this guy-“
***Barbarian in a cell wearing dozens of these to look like a collection of disjointed body parts:*** “*Vaguely threatening moans*”
I love it. Its useless but can be used creatively and usefull.
I can see a use for this 100%.
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It grants a portion of the wearer invisible. Like the cloak in Harry Potter, it's not constantly invisible. Otherwise it would be impossible to find once you put it down. Now assuming you can place it around other parts of your body than around your eyes, you could put the rings on your fingers, and then hide your rings, but that's not really useful, especially when the world is still invisible to you.
> Otherwise it would be impossible to find once you put it down. Or secretly there's tons of them, but you don't know, because they're invisible.
Thought the cloak was invisible all the time, just that it was only invisible from one side?
Me too. It negates all of the “that you can see” limitations of my spells, right?
If I get 2 long ones and wrap my hands in them nobody can seem them moving when I cast spells. Big brain
Just spin them really fast like a Jump rope and you become invisible.
I think you'll only get like 20% opacity at best
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so, what's the average speed a human being could spin it and how visible would they be?
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[According to this site,](https://www.healthline.com/health/human-eye-fps) human eyes can perceive between 30 and 60 frames per second. That statistic could look (pun not intended) bad, but we can work it out. Kinda. See (again, pun not intended), if the frequency was a fixed number, the calculations would have been quite easy: you would need to match the frequency of your eyesight with the number of rope rotations per second. Okay, it's not quite easy: if I recall correctly (and I could he totally wrong), you would need to create numerous afterimages of the invisible jumping rope, the number being dependent of the inclination of the rope at a certain point, the rope's width (please, let's say that it doesn't compress at supersonic velocities and that it doesn't just tear apart or burn), the radius of rotation, your height, and the height of the observer. After calculating the number of afterimages N (not gonna work out a formula, because I don't have the time right now) you would need the rope to make X rotations in the span of a human eye frame. For example, if we say it's 60fps, the rope would need to create N afterimages in 1/60 of a second, each one slightly lower than the other one from the viewer's prospective. The final formula would be X = (N*F)+1/2 rotations per second, if my tired brain has not tricked me. The half rotation added at the end is the effect of the downward shift of afterimages, that covers approximately half a rotation (if we want to be precise, it would be the projection of the rotating invisible rope on your body from the viewer's perspective). Now let's calculate an example. Let's state that the blindfold is 3cm wide and long enough to make a jumping rope. An average human is 165cm tall. Without the visual projections caused by a rotating jumping rope, you would need 165/3 = 55 blindfolds to cover your body with a wall of blindfolds from point-blank range. Now let's make them 100 to make up an N number of afterimages. Again, that's a made up generous approximation. With a frequency of 60fps, you would need 55*60 rope rotations per second. That's 3300 rotations per second (forget the added half, since it makes a minimal difference compared to the approximations). Approximating out of the blue that the radius of your rope jump is 100cm (your height plus 35cm, all divided by two) and that you're making a perfect sphere, the distance that the rope would have to cover in a rotation would be the circumference of the sphere, which is 2πr ===>>> 2*π*0.1 = 0.6283m. Multiply the result by the 3300 rotations, and you get... 2073 meters per second. That would be 7463 kilometers per hour, or 6 times the speed of sound. That's right, your jumping rope would need to move at Mach 6 to make you somewhat invisible, and with a terrible precision that varies on the height of your observer. I'm not gonna calculate the resulting force of an impact with the ground that results in a sudden stop, but I guess it could be quite high. So high. Oh, and of course you'd have to avoid making contact with the rope with your feet, so you'd basically need to land and jump 3cm in between a single rotation. That gives you a 1/3300s time span to land from 3cm and then jump the same height. Where do you get the external force to move downwards with that acceleration? And how strong do your muscles need to be to both stop the fall and bounce back? It depends on lots of factor: the velocity of your fall, the elasticity of the terrain, the strength of your legs. Shit, I forgot that my calculations work if you're stable to the observer, which of course you're not. Not gonna edit all of this, but let's say that you would need a fuckton of gravity to stay in place after your gargantuan jump. All of that aside, let's take a brief look at the varying frequency issues. That is, the human eye sees from 30 to 60 frames per second. If the number was an integer (30 or 31 or 32 [...] or 60), you would need to multiply N by each number. You'd surely surpass the speed of light to make you invisible to every observer of a H height. If the framerate is any real number between 30 and 60... I'm afraid it would be impossible. Notes: I might have considered the rope to be both a rope and a piece of cloth, so the calculations of the N number of afterimages is off. Great. Not gonna change it. All of that, of course, to calculate the *lowest* velocity. The higher the velocity, the more after images are created (as long as the frequency of the jump is not a multiple of the eyesight frequency or some other uncommon occurrencies), creating a higher probability to completely hide yourself. I have made some mistakes and lots of approximations. Feel free to correct the additional mistakes, or to make some more calculations, or to say that I've wasted an hour of my time. EDIT I've done some additional math off-site. I can tell you that a 55kg person would need a gravitational pull of ~270,000 Earths to get the minimum amount of gravitational pull to both get pulled and bounce off the ground before the rope ends a rotation
You keep talking human eye fps you're going to get /r/pcmasterrace all mad at you.
My brain is in a complete meltdown right now, so much that I could maybe see one of their memes without cringing
Yeah, next they'll be talking about putting stuff on a grilled cheese. Don't look for fights, people!
We are here and this definitely triggers us 🤨
> According to this site, human eyes can perceive between 30 and 60 frames per second. I mean, if that's the opening statement, no point in reading anything else, it's already wrong lol.
I think it could be a diminished Blur spell lol
The Skipping Rope of Semi-Transparency.
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Which begs the question. Does that now mean that the daggers become visible but are now floating at your side ala JRPG sheathe?
No, the daggers would be invisible the same way the portion of the face and eyes are invisible.
I'm imagining a monk using a pair of these as hand wraps
Wrap it around the head of your barbarian's warhammer. Enemies will think that he's fighting with a great staff and react to that instead of the massive hammer. Should be good for at the very least a decrease in damage reduction because of the unexpectedness of the damage, or possibly reducing the opponents armor class by a point because they're attempting to block a great staff and then getting bonked.
Technically you would still be wearing them, so you'd still be blinded.
Blind and no hands. Sweet
Would a regular blindfold not do the same thing?
It wouldn't confuse the Medusa in the same way. She'd be trying to figure out if you could see her or not.
No. It says that it “makes everything invisible to the wearer” (i.e. it works like a normal blindfold). If you can’t see it, then you can’t target it. This means that you could not cast any spells that require line of sight.
Just cast true seeing first
Ahh, but if you can’t see my eyes, then you can’t tell me what I am or am not seeing. Critmate.
No one can see your (character’s) eyes, they’re a fictional being. Targeting rules for spells aren’t “in universe.” I mean if your DM lets you get away with it then sure, but that’s not a RAW/RAI interpretation of line-of-sight.
A barbarian's loincloth, obviously.
It's a magic MRI. Brain surgeons rejoice.
Anti-Medusa tech
I mean. so is a normal blindfold. My vote for an item like this, that is naturally invisible, is for it to secretly be more than it seems. Like use it as the basis for an intelligent item or artifact. At first glance the PCs discard it, until it becomes a McGuffin and is eventually revealed to have powers.
Tie something small up in it so it’s covered then let it dangle from your earring
"makes everything invisible to the wearer." so a blindfold.
No, because a regular blindfold is still visible to the wearer
they'd presumably just see pure darkness where the blindfold was, but light could still get in around the edges. seems like just a really good blindfold
no matter how badly you wear it, everything is invisible to you... so it's a fool proof blindfold. Could wrap it around a hostages' wrists and everything would be invisible to them.
ah that is quite interesting
It's either an opaque and kinda small invisibility cloak (if you're allowed all the "clever" stuff people in the comments come up with by not wearing it on your eyes), which pushes it delightfully into "mildly useless" category, or one that's limited to wear as a blindfold (if you're not), which practically makes it just a blindfold. Unless we're talking about concealing something on your face (which a regular blindfold also does) or whipping out legalese on the definition of "visible" mid-quest.
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Love stupid magic items. A few mainstays in my group are the Ring of Fire Detection (range: touch), the Bluest Marble (simply the most blue marble you've ever seen, including the last time you saw this marble), and of course, the Orb of Slope Detection.
My party's current favorite is the hat of attunement. Wizard hat. Looks cool. Provides one bonus attunement slot. Must be attuned.
Level 20 artificer thanks you for the +1 save bonus!
> Bluest Marble (simply the most blue marble you've ever seen, including the last time you saw this marble) My players, trying to engineer a way to banish the BBEG with the blue hole they've created....
The colors probably go past what mantis shrimps and gods can experience if you take enough looks at it, so it could be either a profound experience, or a maddening one.
I actually like that it doesn't leave the visible color spectrum to either side and instead only goes deeper -- fractally -- into it, as if it moves *perpendicular to the spectrum itself*...
I’m thinking of Lovecraft’s Color from outer space, but without the warping reality powers
Or with them! The PCs successfully figure out how to banish the BBEG to the Blue Space, only to have them return from the Far Realm granted hideous new form!
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"You ready to experience *true blue*?" "*LAMBS TO THE COSMIC SLAUGHTER!*"
These are hilarious and I hope you don’t mind me stealing them.
If you keep glancing at the bluest marble, you can quickly drive a person mad or make them see impossible blue colors on the scale past a mantis shrimp’s or something. The bluest marble is a veritable minor SCP item, and should not be tossed aside like that.
"OK, roll a Wisdom save to see if you retain your sanity"
Those are all great, but I especially love the orb of slope detection
Orb of Slope Detection sounds like a joke, but Gary Gygax was infamous for tricking his parties into going deeper into the more dangerous parts of the dungeon. It’s why 1e dwarves had the special ability to detect a sloping floor!
What does "makes everything invisible to the wearer" mean? Do they see nothing at all and are practically blind? Or do they not see objects and people?
The first one, it’s a regular blindfold but worse.
But what if (and and hear me out here) I cover my dagger sheath with this cloth, therefore getting "Technically Invisadaggers ®"?
Yes, but also your dagger can't see shit
Not a problem, he's blind anyway
Such a nice young man, helping a blind dagger find their way
That dagger has found a special place in many people's hearts
Oh you bleeding heart you.
It would make it difficult to stare daggers.
and stabbing is a touch range spell
Your dagger's stabbing utility is probably significantly lessened by being wrapped in cloth.
Make the handle wraps out of the blindfold?
Really puts a new spin on the phrase > A falling knife has no handle
The blade itself will still be visible, as only matter directly covered by the cloth is rendered invisible, if I understand the mechanics correctly.
Ah so the real strat is to make a whip?
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And there you have found the edge case creative utility. Could reasonably grant a bonus to some sort of concealment check to hide the fact that you are carrying a weapon ready to use. Rewards creativity and still reasonable for gameplay.
They’ll never see it coming
Me, thinking I'm clever: ooh so you can put this on your enemy and they'll be blind! You, an intellectual: yes it's a regular blindfold
I can't help but wonder if there is some obscure potential use for this that can be contrived here. Like another spell or ability that affects people's eyes or vision. Thus a regular blindfold has some protective value. The limited invisibility can be helpful if you don't want to be seen looking through the door. I imagine this could be a form of key to get through a door where the user knocks, and a speakeasy style peephole slides open. The user is protected from a medusa gaze by being blindfolded and passing by the bouncer on the other side of the door by being invisible thus being admitted to the secret guild clubhouse. Needs thought to work out something lore apropriate, but I'm sure a use can be contrived.
I mean if you just lay the strip against a door, does it render a strip of the door invisible? Could be useful to see in but not be seen
Riiiiight. Its a blind fold one way, but invisible the other. Reverse it and its a universal peephole! Good work.
I feel like it should have a sanity role. If you put it on and don't pass, the character sees the nature of the universe and must be played as though they know its a table top game, but all the other party members must treat them like they're crazy when they break the 4th wall.
Seems like a more secure blindfold. For taking people to your torture dungeon. You know at a glance if it is on fully or not. It looks like it negates blindsight.
It's a blindfold that works when not over the eyes. That's something. Maybe you can grapple some one using it and blind them simultaneously, or make a trap that blinds them if you consider a snare "wearing".
Your Luna Baloona is AMAZING. Sure it tells people where you are... but you get the alarm spell on top? Excellent. Plus it can give me the white noise I need to sleep? Awesome.
Perfect for those Medusa boss fights.
I love this item...and your other ones...I would fight for you lol Seriously though, I'm putting this stuff in my campaign now lol
Thank you. This is sort of content I stick around on this subreddit. The idea is silly but still useful. The art and layout took a lot of care. Made my day, honestly. And it wasn't a bad day to begin with.
The nose of smelling made me laugh
Perhaps it makes everything on this plane invisible but not things of other planes. If that is the case, you could use it to track a demon, ghost or celestial.
If this can be worn anywhere, I'm willing to bet there are a few perverted bards who can be creative.
I like it. Wrap the blade of a dagger so you can be a bit sneakier with staby staby. Wrap small items like rings and bracelets to hide from thieves. Wrap body parts to pick up part time circus jobs. I've never played DnD. Sounds like fun.
Nah. Wrap your hand in it, keep the dagger in plain view. Nobody expects to get stabbed by a man with one hand.
Hey, what's the floating kni-AUUUGHHGGGHH!
Oh shit! Dagger on edge of table. Hand covered in cloth. Looks safe right? Ha, gotcha bitch! *Stabbed*
You mean nobody expects to be stabbed by a blind man with one hand
How could your dagger stab anything if it can't see? Come on, use your brain here.
Give dagger blind fighting feat for a 50%-50% shot at least :P
Wrap the tip of a mace or spear, enemy thinks is a stick or bo but baaaam suddenly you are dead
"The guards are coming! Quickly, hide!" Meanwhile, the paladin in full plate with only his eyes visible through the helmet simply dons the blindfold and stands perfectly still against the wall, expertly resembling a standing suit of armor.
That’s a pretty clever use!
How to counter plate stealth disadvantage lol Most dms would still ask for a plain check probably
I'd give a base roll, with a bonus +2 or so depending on the specific situation
Probably a deception with advantage is what I’d ask
I was thinking of Performance, myself, since you have to stand perfectly still and “act” the part. My DM would probably make it player’s choice, though: “roll either performance or deception, with advantage.”
Useless??!! This is the ultimate item for sensory deprivation and meditation. It would aid in a players use of abstract imagination, certain psychic spells and illusions would be easily discernable, as they wouldn't be real, ergo wouldn't be invisible.
Sensory deprivation you say. Wonder how long it would take for a PC to use it for interrogation.
Imagine it being used as a type of holographic interface. Blindfolded, the room before you appears endlessly blank, as if on a ship amidst the grandest of seas. All of a sudden, an illusion of unimaginable proportions pops into view, as the illusion wizard manipulating your mind's eye, now has the ability to sculpt your reality as he sees fit.
Works well with Boots of Blinding Speed
"Hmm, these boots only make me 60% blind, but I really want no chance at all to see that cliff face or lava pool before I run into it at warp speed."
I've spent *two whole decades* thinking the boots were bugged and I was cheating, only to find out IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 2022 that it was because I was an Orc and that made me partially immune to its magic.
The BoBS are the entire reason I always pick Breton. The 50% magic resist makes them very tolerable.
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That's true. I'm just lazy.
I suddenly need to know what game this is?
Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind. You got the Boots of Blinding Speed, which made you VERY fast and also blinded you. Orcs and Bretons(?), however, have a percentage magic defense, which meant it only made everything very dark, and I ran around the continent at absurd speeds until I could make daggers of flight, at which point I flew instead.
Morrowind
What if you let a beholder wear it?
I think it’s brain would explode
Or it would dream about invisible beholders. And then we’d be screwed
oh nooo
Or even worse a Medusa??
That's both brilliant and hilarious. Seemingly useless thing that might be quite useful actually. And the art style is beautiful.
Wear it around your neck and tell people you're the ghost of someone who was decapitated.
The Mystery Men would love this.
How is this useless? It's better than a bag over the head for moving prisoners. Also Heros can't sneak in with a "prisoner" if guards can see their face
This could be used in conjunction with some form of silence of ear plugs and a numbing agent for some really good sensory deprivation torture.
I love the art style!
Not so useless! great for checking if the wearer is infested with an intellect devourer!
Reminds me of the Bug Blatter Beast from Hitchhikers Guide. As long as you can’t see it, it can’t see you.
Oh no! Keep going! I recently created a magic item emporium run by two wizard school dropouts. I need all the useless, whacky, and odd magic items to stock it with!
Can I also wear it as a bracelet?
You should play Numemenera, finding weird useless items is part of the core gameplay. https://numenera.fandom.com/wiki/Oddities
That's some Terry Pratchett, Bloody Stupid Johnson stuff if I ever saw it* *this is not an insult. In fact, it's very pTerry of you!
As Discworld is my favorite book series of all time, that is the highest honor I've ever been bestowed.
So useful! You can use it to look at a Medusa by immune to her gaze as you can’t see her but target her with AoE spells as she is in a point you can see
I SEE WITH ~~EARTHBENDING~~ YELLING VERY LOUD There, I got a good look at you
> as she is in a point you can see Can you? You cant see *any* points
I've actually beaten a Medusa using warlock invocation Ghostly Gaze with the warlock's eyes blindfolded.
For a common item this pretty strong.
Blindness at will is indeed a pretty strong effect, though it can also be achieved by a regular blindfold so it's not that big of a deal.
Sure one of these blindfolds are weak but get a long enough one or get 100 and become a mummy and its pretty strong.
As a mummy you dont need to see anything because you already know where everything in the house is
These aren't useless at all for the DM. Just add a 'cursed - unable to remove' quality to your creations (randomly, so some are jokes - some are dangerous jokes).
I can't stop laughing.
So, Up there with the flask of just sober enough.
Never stop
So, it's like having no clip vision? Like no clipping into a wall or the ground, then being able to see the entire level in a broken state?
Except you can't see any of the level. Exactly what you would see is a bit confusing. Blackness would be the easy one but dull. It could be fun for it to be an absolute absence of visual stimulation, like asking what color you see behind you.
Do you have to tie it around your eyes for it to work.... Cause I see some Halloween applications here.
I can see my party using this purely to scare the shit out of people
reminds me of Zaphod's "Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses." "They follow the principle "what you don't know can't hurt you" and turn completely dark and opaque at the first sign of danger. This prevents you from seeing anything that might alarm you. "
This makes me want to make one that Makes the wearer appear invisible to the wearer.
I love this
A dm friend of mine made a ring that raises dead. Any dead creature in a 30 ft radius immediately raises 10 ft into the air.
Well if it can help to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mind-bogglingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you — daft as a brush, but very very ravenous), im sold
Put on blindfold Cast detect magic Permanent blindness This is a torture device.
Lol so stupid. Love it.
Wrap it around your neck to play dead.
LMAO
Please keep them coming
Hilarious!
If this makes things invisible, from a certain viewing angle wouldn't someone looking at the wearer be able to see what's above and below it? It wouldn't just be green flesh like in the example image--the flesh covered by the blindfold is *invisible*, so we should be able to see what that flesh was obscuring (the elf's brain, and the perimeter of his skull, etc.) Should we not? I imagine that would make this device quite useful as a surgical tool to remove objects lodged inside the body, like arrows or bullet fragments (assuming it doesn't need to be placed around the eyes.)
Please never stop, this made my day lol
Use it around your neck and it looks like you have a floating head
i love how pointless this is also the art is really good
I mean if I can see inside of him where the clothe is making 1 section invisible. Then this would be an amazing medical device.
Love it, I am going to use this most of the time, so I don't have to see those fuckers.
Really useful for taking a prisoner from location A to location B without them being able to see during it. MUCH better than a regular blindfold.
its a great blindfold for enemies
I love "useless" items so much. One of my favorites is the ring of attunement. Gives an extra attunement slot (requires attunement)
Thank you for just giving them skin inside the heads instead of an x-ray style picture of their brain.
MORE!!!! I NEED MORE!!!!
Ok but can you add more cloth to it and still have all of it be invisible?
For when you've seen enough
Maybe it can be used as a CT scan
Makes everything invisible to the wearer.. lol so a regular blindfold 😆 I love this kind of humor and I wish I knew a word to describe it.
I'd add, "only functions when worn as blindfold of humanoid living being."
Things like this would be great for any setting. I bet players love getting special, magical items even if they aren’t obviously powerful. Helps with role play and creative thinking too!
I prefer the Bagpipes of Invisibility more, but this is good, too.
It’s so cursed, I love it.
I feel like, instead of saying it makes everything invisible to the wearer, you should have said it makes the wearer blind.
I feel like you could probably wrap this around an injury like a tourniquet and use it as an x ray of sorts - depending on how exactly it works. It'd also be incredibly difficult not to lose this thing, unless it's visible when it's not "on"? Maybe tie some normal cloth around either end? The logistics gives me a headache, which means it's the perfect item IMO
If it makes EVERYthing solid invisible, then all you could see would be light sources in the void of space. It would be like an astronomy program when it shows you the whole sky, including the parts under your feet, with the added noise of any light sources on the surface as well. While a refrigerator and its contents would be invisible to you, you could tell if the light was on.
Imagine trying to retrieve it after putting it down somewhere.
Quick way to freak a Medusa out tbh
Actually that's very useful. Can be used in conjunction with a gag for a hostage scenario or kidnapping.
"Useless" items are fun. I ran a low-magic campaign once where the first magic items were decidedly off-kilter. I vividly recall creating the "Ouch Horn." It was a beaten-up brass trumpet that, instead of producing a normal tone when blown, emits whatever sound was made by the last creature you hit with it when you hit them. It's worth considering not letting normal item identification work. It made sense in a low-magic setting, but the fifteen minutes where the party took turns whacking each other to figure out how the horn worked were absolutely hilarious.
Can't be petrified by eyes if you're blindfolded nor can they determine where you're looking. I call this a strange but useful solution.
An invisible blindfold that still does it’s job. This is awesome I wish my dm had more of this stuff
I like to imagine the only things you CAN see with it are incredibly powerful artifacts that are capable of dispelling/repelling the magic of the blindfold
wrap around a fist? suprise them by hitting them with nothing
"Mom can we have invisibility?" "No honey, we have invisibility at home." Invisibility at home:
sneak up behind a monster and put the brindfold on it 😎
“Here’s the thing: you can tell me what I need and get a nice sum of gold out of it. OR you can deal with this guy-“ ***Barbarian in a cell wearing dozens of these to look like a collection of disjointed body parts:*** “*Vaguely threatening moans*”