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<blockquote data-quote="Rhenny" data-source="post: 6981731" data-attributes="member: 18333">To add, as others have said, you could play up the black and white limitation of darkvision too and make sure that rooms/areas have more interesting objects of varied colors and use clues/puzzles that need to be seen in color.But, from my experience, even just forcing them to make perception checks at disadvantage (and making their passive perception -5) tends to lead to easier ambushes so you can work with this.&nbsp; Also, for the stealthy ones, you can use creatures with blindsight, tremor sense and echolocation (Flying Sword, Rug of Smothering, Ankheg, Needle Blight, Twig Blight, Vine Blight, Bulette, Crawling Claw, Darkmantle, Many Demons and Devils, Dragons, Gas Spore, Shrieker, Violet Fungus, Galeb Duhr, Grell, Hook Horror, Intellect Devourer, Puddings/Oozes, Piercer, Purple Worm, Shambling Mound, Umber Hulk, Water Weird, Xorn, Mezzoloth, Nycaloth).&nbsp;&nbsp; Oh, by the way, Darkmantles are really scary for lower level PCs.&nbsp; They can each cast darkness and function in the dark and if they hit, they basically engulf the head and begin to suffocate the target.&nbsp; I ran an encounter of 6 of these creatures vs. a group of 4 4th level PCs, and it was really scary for only 300 xp.Cheers</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Rhenny, post: 6981731, member: 18333"] To add, as others have said, you could play up the black and white limitation of darkvision too and make sure that rooms/areas have more interesting objects of varied colors and use clues/puzzles that need to be seen in color. But, from my experience, even just forcing them to make perception checks at disadvantage (and making their passive perception -5) tends to lead to easier ambushes so you can work with this. Also, for the stealthy ones, you can use creatures with blindsight, tremor sense and echolocation (Flying Sword, Rug of Smothering, Ankheg, Needle Blight, Twig Blight, Vine Blight, Bulette, Crawling Claw, Darkmantle, Many Demons and Devils, Dragons, Gas Spore, Shrieker, Violet Fungus, Galeb Duhr, Grell, Hook Horror, Intellect Devourer, Puddings/Oozes, Piercer, Purple Worm, Shambling Mound, Umber Hulk, Water Weird, Xorn, Mezzoloth, Nycaloth). Oh, by the way, Darkmantles are really scary for lower level PCs. They can each cast darkness and function in the dark and if they hit, they basically engulf the head and begin to suffocate the target. I ran an encounter of 6 of these creatures vs. a group of 4 4th level PCs, and it was really scary for only 300 xp. Cheers [/QUOTE]

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