How dark is magical darkness?
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frankthedm
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Thank you!Nail said:
Obscuring Darkness
Evocation [Darkness]
Level: Brd 2, Clr 2, Sor/Wiz 2
Components: V, M/DF
Casting Time: 1 standard action
Range: Touch
Target: Object touched
Duration: 10 min./level (D)
Saving Throw: None
Spell Resistance: No
This spell causes an object to radiate pitch darkness out to a 20-foot radius. This darkness obscures all sight, including darkvision. All creatures in the area gain total concealment (50% miss chance).
Those who possess normal lights brighter than a candle (torches, lanterns, light spells of lower level and so forth) have to their own square illuminated, and the adjacent squares have shadowy illumination. Thus a creature 5 feet away from a light source has concealment (attacks have a 20% miss chance). Creatures farther away have total concealment (50% miss chance, and the attacker cannot use sight to locate the target). A light as bright as a candle only provides shadowy illumination in the possessor’s square.
If a creature with a light source has more than one square as its face [large or bigger], it chooses one square to be the fully illuminated square {a candle would just provide the single shadowy square]. If the creature is a light source, however, then all of its squares are illuminated, with all adjacent squares receiving shadowy illumination.
Even creatures that can normally see in such conditions (such as with darkvision or low-light vision) have the miss chance in this area shrouded in magical darkness.
Higher level light spells are not affected by darkness.
If darkness is cast on a small object that is then placed inside or under a lightproof covering, the spell’s effect is blocked until the covering is removed.
Darkness counters or dispels any light spell of equal or lower spell level.
Arcane Material Component
A bit of bat fur and either a drop of pitch or a piece of coal.
A desperate minor demon uses its Obscuring Darkness spell like ability to confound the fire elemental and the Annis hag sorcerer who summoned it.
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frankthedm
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I actually like the idea of changing the 'cover up the darkened coin' to...Nail said:
...If darkness is cast on a small object that is then placed inside or under a lightproof covering of a certain thickness; 1 foot of stone, 1 inch of common metal, a thin sheet of lead, or 3 feet of wood or dirt the spell’s effect is blocked until the covering is removed.
To play up on the idea of how unnatural darkness is.
InVinoVeritas
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"It's, like, so black! It's, like, how much more black could it be? And the answer is none. None more black."
(Okay, not really, but... it had to be said.)
(Okay, not really, but... it had to be said.)
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