Hey, WotC: Give Dwarves their Darkvision Back

[Midknightsun]

I'm also happy that Darkvision is gone from dwarves, and hopefully for PC races period. I ran an Arcana Evolved campaign and there was nothing more of a PITA than characters with Darkvision.

I agree that it should be vanishingly rare for monsters as well.

 

[frankthedm]

Klaus mentioned it on the last page. He didn't mention a range, but then, I certainly wouldn't mind not worrying about light radii and whatnot.

Then my guess was spot on .

Not only do dwarves lose darkvision, low light gets a major nerf too! Alright!

 

[Bagpuss]

But on the plus side you only need to measure once.

 

[Plane Sailing]

No darkvision for dwarves? Fantastic. Removes at a stroke both one of the main problems with attempting to create a creepy atmosphere in a dungeon (dwarf and half-orc just see everything as normal (within 60ft, natch)), plus removes the problem of how a party of mixed darkvision and ordinary vision guys get to adventure together in a dungeon meaningfully.

To be honest I'd be happy to see magical "darkvision" disappear completely. The only things that should see in the dark are things that use something other than eyes to 'see' with. Echolation? Fine. Tremorsense? Brilliant. Astonishing sense of smell? Workable. Psionic detection via minds or telekinises? Doable.