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<blockquote data-quote="Terramotus" data-source="post: 4326238" data-attributes="member: 7220">So, a question came up in one of our games.&nbsp; The party was ambushed by a Black Dragon that used Cloud of Darkness.&nbsp; After the Cloud was used, the Wizard decided to cast Light on the Fighter's shield.&nbsp; The question came up as to whether the Light cantrip did anything?So the Light has a larger area than the Darkness, and potentially can totally encompass it.&nbsp; Does that affect the status of anyone who is blinded inside the Cloud, or is the &quot;darkness&quot; aspect essentially fluff and it's really a blindness effect?Furthermore, does the Light eliminate the line of sight blockage?&nbsp; In other words, is the text in Cloud of Darkness just a restating for convenience's sake that, per p.280, squares of darkness provide total concealment.&nbsp; Well, the Light description states that it fills the entire square, and if a square is filled with Light it cannot also be dark.My personal take is that the cloud is not physical, and thus provides no physical blockage to line of sight.&nbsp; Therefore, if the area is no longer dark, Line of Sight is no longer blocked.&nbsp; A DM wishing to split the difference, however, could rule that instead the area is &quot;shadowy illumination&quot; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> and provides instead partial concealment.&nbsp; However, the blindness effect has nothing to do with the relative darkness of the area, and would remain.Thoughts?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Terramotus, post: 4326238, member: 7220"] So, a question came up in one of our games. The party was ambushed by a Black Dragon that used Cloud of Darkness. After the Cloud was used, the Wizard decided to cast Light on the Fighter's shield. The question came up as to whether the Light cantrip did anything? So the Light has a larger area than the Darkness, and potentially can totally encompass it. Does that affect the status of anyone who is blinded inside the Cloud, or is the "darkness" aspect essentially fluff and it's really a blindness effect? Furthermore, does the Light eliminate the line of sight blockage? In other words, is the text in Cloud of Darkness just a restating for convenience's sake that, per p.280, squares of darkness provide total concealment. Well, the Light description states that it fills the entire square, and if a square is filled with Light it cannot also be dark. My personal take is that the cloud is not physical, and thus provides no physical blockage to line of sight. Therefore, if the area is no longer dark, Line of Sight is no longer blocked. A DM wishing to split the difference, however, could rule that instead the area is "shadowy illumination" ;) and provides instead partial concealment. However, the blindness effect has nothing to do with the relative darkness of the area, and would remain. Thoughts? [/QUOTE]

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