D&D 5E does Daylight make daylight?

[Guest 6801328]

I would think of "Daylight" as being the kind of light that comes through a window during the day, which is not the same as direct sunlight.

 

[Khisanth the Ancient]

Looking for any scientific reason for some light to harm vampires and other light not to is not only an exercise in futility, but--IMO--completely misses the point of the vampire mythology. Sunlight harms them for mystical and spiritual reasons, not due to any factor that can be measured.

I was kidding (mostly*)... but the "UV harms vampires" thing has been done before.

*Old D&D had infravision instead of darkvision, though, and at least 1E had 'ultravision' too. So at least back then IR/UV were things that existed in the D&D multiverse.

 

[Mouseferatu]

I was kidding (mostly*)... but the "UV harms vampires" thing has been done before.

Oh, I know it has. I've hated it then, too.

 

[ExploderWizard]

Looking for any scientific reason for some light to harm vampires and other light not to is not only an exercise in futility, but--IMO--completely misses the point of the vampire mythology. Sunlight harms them for mystical and spiritual reasons, not due to any factor that can be measured.

Oh it can be measured. 20 radiant damage per turn. Thats a fairly precise measurement.

 

[Guest 6801328]

Oh it can be measured. 20 radiant damage per turn. Thats a fairly precise measurement.

Is that 20 points of Meat, Luck, or Endurance?

/ducks

 

[Khisanth the Ancient]

Interestingly, the 3.5 sunbeam and sunburst spells mention ultraviolet light as why they damage "fungi, mold, oozes, and slimes", but not in reference to undead.

http://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/sunburst.htm
http://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/sunbeam.htm