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<blockquote data-quote="jgsugden" data-source="post: 7101266" data-attributes="member: 2629"><p>Further notes: Most races state in their darkvision description that darkvision allows sight in dim light as if it were bright and in darkness as if dim. The darkvision description says that you see darkness as if it were dim light and only in shades of grey. This means a vision based check for a character that has darkvision looking in darkness (within the range of the darkness) has disadvantage (which results in a -5 to passive scores) and may result in an increase to the DC if the detail to be noted is not visible easily when everything is seen in shades of grey.</p><p></p><p>For example, I had a PC with darkvision write a note for a human ally that was following him in an ink that appeared to be the same grey 'color' when viewed in darkvision as the material it was written on. When the orcs following him came to the place where the message was and viewed it in darkvision, I made it a DC 20 perception check to note the message. However, it was a DC 10 perception check for the human to see it when they had torch light to aid them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jgsugden, post: 7101266, member: 2629"] Further notes: Most races state in their darkvision description that darkvision allows sight in dim light as if it were bright and in darkness as if dim. The darkvision description says that you see darkness as if it were dim light and only in shades of grey. This means a vision based check for a character that has darkvision looking in darkness (within the range of the darkness) has disadvantage (which results in a -5 to passive scores) and may result in an increase to the DC if the detail to be noted is not visible easily when everything is seen in shades of grey. For example, I had a PC with darkvision write a note for a human ally that was following him in an ink that appeared to be the same grey 'color' when viewed in darkvision as the material it was written on. When the orcs following him came to the place where the message was and viewed it in darkvision, I made it a DC 20 perception check to note the message. However, it was a DC 10 perception check for the human to see it when they had torch light to aid them. [/QUOTE]
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