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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 6612198" data-attributes="member: 7006">If you are ruling that Dim Light in of itself is considered "natural phenomenon" for the purposes of the Wood Elf's Mask of the Wild... then yes, a Wood Elf should be able to hide from a creature with darkvision, regardless of where the Wood Elf is standing.  Theoretically, by your ruling the Wood Elf could be right in front of the person with darkvision and be allowed to hide, because everywhere within that creature's darkvision radius is Dim Light.Which is exactly the reason why I personally do not consider Dim Light to be "natural phenomenon", and thus the Wood Elf can't use only that as their Lightly Obscuring terrain.  Wood Elves are good at masking themselves behind trees, bushes, snow, rocks etc... but not just darkness on its own.  That's the kind of ability a different kind of creature would have.Speaking of which... when I created my 5E version of the Shade race... being able to attempt to hide when Lightly Obscured by Dim Light is in fact that very same ability I gave to them-- which I adapted from the 4E Shade's "One With Shadows" ability.   To me it makes much more sense that this shadow-based race would have the ability to hide in Dim Light than it would for the Wood Elf to do the same (although by the same token, the Shade cannot attempt to hide when just behind Lightly Obscured cover like the Wood Elf can-- the two races each have different times they can do it.)</blockquote>

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