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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LightPhoenix" data-source="post: 4879648" data-attributes="member: 115">I don't know how the Black Dragon's darkness works (DM asked me not to read the MM).  However, I'll share a recent example from our game with darkness.We were fighting some kind of striker that made areas of darkness and hid in them (if you know what it is, you can reference the creature yourself).  Now, I personally like to think that, after the surprise round badness, our DM sensed our frustration with the darkness.  He's a good DM (and I will take the bonus XP now <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />).Anyway, the first thing my wizard did was cast light.  The DM explained that the light could help with the darkness... but the shadow things could restore their darkness as a free action on their turn.  So, when my turn came up, the light dominated.  When the shadow things' turns came up, the darkness came back on.  With some well-executed delays, it turned into a great battle with lights going on and off, where everyone rushed to go after me and before the shadow things.  Then the lights went off, and Bad (tm) happened.  I actually wrote it up for our group, and if you need more inspiration I'd be happy to post it.</blockquote>