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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Amaroq" data-source="post: 5105761" data-attributes="member: 15470">Yeah, absolutely agree with mneme - this feels like one which you'll want to toss the official rules out the window, and write your own "house rule" for.I'd suggest you give it a bit more flexibility than "highest level", or "one square of bright" .. you might get a lot of mileage out of "2 squares of bright" or even doing up some kind of weird "cover" rule, maybe:- When the two powers overlap, all squares adjacent to the shield remain bright light.- Any squares within 5 of the shield, but closer to the source of the darkness than the shield is, are dim light. Any squares within 5 of the shield but further from the source of the darkness than the shield is, are bright light. - For all other squares within the darkness aura subject to natural light, torchlight, etc, trace a line from the center of the square to the center of the darkness.  : If the line passes through a square of bright light from the shield's aura, the square is as bright as its light source would make it (minimum: dim light thanks to the shield's brilliance).  : If the line passes through a square of dim light, the square is as bright as its light source would make it. (maximum: dim light). : If the line does not pass through a square lit by the shield, the square is considered dark.Those rules put a massive premium on the shield, as other light sources become useless without the shield.Whoever is carrying the shield will literally cut a swath of visibility through the darkness .. while tossing other potential sources of bright light into the darkness won't help at all - at least, not until you get the shield far enough into the darkness to start cutting off the darkness's "line of effect".If the darkness effect comes from a creature, s/he may be able to dance around the shield, putting those who through they were safe in the bright light back into the dim light or darkness.The effect should really create an epic "darkness versus light" battle effect .. in fact, I'm going to face a similar situation soon, so I may just yoink those rules as my starting point and massage them some more until they're polished.</blockquote>

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