Pathfinder 1E - Lifesense/Blindsight | EN World Tabletop RPG News & Reviews

Posted by Almeda Bohannan on Friday, May 3, 2024

There really should be a mention of whether lifesense is stopped by barriers or not.


Lifesense (Su) The creature notices and locates living creatures within 60 feet, just as if it possessed the blindsight ability.

Blindsight (Ex) This ability is similar to blindsense, but is far more discerning. Using nonvisual senses, such as sensitivity to vibrations, keen smell, acute hearing, or echolocation, a creature with blindsight maneuvers and fights as well as a sighted creature. Invisibility, darkness, and most kinds of concealment are irrelevant, though the creature must have line of effect to a creature or object to discern that creature or object.

Line of Effect: A line of effect is a straight, unblocked path that indicates what a spell can affect. A line of effect is canceled by a solid barrier. It's like line of sight for ranged weapons, except that it's not blocked by fog, darkness, and other factors that limit normal sight.

Also, from what does the dread wraith get its darkvision? It doesn't have eyes. It's just an image that -resembles- something with eyes. If the darkvision is just some inherent ability, why does the dread wraith have lifesense? Why does a wraith even need darkvision, when it has lifesense? It doesn't need to worry about running into walls, or anything.


Lifesense would let it see invisible living things, fog, magical darkness, and through some kinds of illusion.
Darkvision lets it tell there's a wall in front of it so that it shouldn't be surprised it can't see any life forms, see the other undead it likes to convort with, and see the address of the house it's about to enter. :)

SKR has a 3.5 rant on where Undead get that Darkvision from. (Although it may not be an entirely helpful rant.)

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