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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 6755808" data-attributes="member: 29398">I'm not [MENTION=662]thalmin[/MENTION] but as my ruling would be exactly the same, here's my rationale: simplicity.  The Faerie Fire can happily keep going - there's no need to have the Darkness interact with it in any way at all other than to block its light thus I wouldn't need to worry about casting level or any other stuff - but inside the Darkness it effectively Does Nothing as the Darkness trumps it.  However if a Faerie Fire'd creature manages to get out of the Darkness (or if the Darkness somehow moves away) it would then resume glowing, and if the Darkness somehow got dispelled without the Faerie Fire also getting clobbered the glowing would also resume.Same thing if someone inside a Darkness has a glowing weapon - as far as I'm concerned the weapon still glows all the while but the Darkness prevents anyone from seeing it.  Up to each DM whether something like an everburning torch would be knocked out by a Darkness; I'd be consistent here and say it continues to function but the Darkness trumps whatever light it can generate.Lan-"magical light vs. magical darkness arguments have been going on since the game was invented...nothing new here"-efan</blockquote>