Darkness + Ranged Attacks

[moritheil]

Further complicating the matter, 3.5 darkness is no longer magical, imprenetrable darkness. Thus you can have a lit area, a dark area, and then a lit area, and shoot from one lit area to another without difficulties.

 

[Veander]

So is Obscuring Mist the only lower spell that does more closely what the old Darkness did?

 

[ThirdWizard]

So is Obscuring Mist the only lower spell that does more closely what the old Darkness did?

Pretty much.

 

[godfear]

It depends on one's interpretation of 'a square that grants concealment'.

-Hyp.

Yea, that was the sticking point with my group. It doesn't expressly say that the squares in the area of effect grant concealment, and as far as I can tell normal (nonmagical) darkness doesn't cause a square to grant concealment either. I suspect they are talking about stuff like... bushes, maybe. Similar to soft cover.

Meh... maybe I'll just try to talk them into using 3.0 Darkness again.

 

[ThirdWizard]

Meh... maybe I'll just try to talk them into using 3.0 Darkness again.

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Obscuring mist from above is a good example of something that grants concealment to an area. Tall grass is the most commonly seen in my game, though, especially when dealing with Small races.