You're right. I forgot that drow have only darkvision. They have no low-light vision. I'm wondering if there is a situation in which low-light vision is superior to darkvision.
Dark Vision is superior to Low Light Vision for two things:
- Close-combat in utter darkness; and
- Going to the toilet at night without having to turn on the lightswitch
In every other situation, LLV is better because it is in
color and its range is virtually endless (you can see twice far as with puny normal vision). If you want to spot that pirate ship, a 120-ft. or 60-ft. darkvision won't help you; if you want to read a book by candlelight, darkvision will be useless (and in total darkness, you can't read at all, even with darkvision, unless it's written in braille as you can only see shapes); if you want to gaze at the stars, darkvision is useless whereas lowlight vision allows you to see stars human needs spyglass to see... Basically, darkvision is useful only in dungeon environments (and then again, only if there are no funky things like those glowing mushrooms, or incandescent lava falls, two staples of the genre no self-respecting dungeon can afford to omit); and low-light vision is better in every place where there is a bit of ligthing. This include every outside places and most buildings.
Lesser spellsong: she gains the ability to cast any of her 3rd level or lower spells spontaneously as domain spells.
Spellsong: as lesser spellsong, except up to 6th level spells are affected.
So, despite their name, they are not the same as Tome &Blood's bladesinger (for memory, lesser spellsong is here the capacity to take 10 on Concentration check when casting defensively when wielding a single longsword; and greater spellsong is the capacity to ignore arcane spell failure for armor). Damn elves. They always have to have abilities whose names are made with "silver", "spell", "blade", "dance" and "song", and so it gets confusing after a while, because it is a very reduced set of word.
Bah, doesn't the whole Demon/Devil worship go against the president set Deities/Demigods and Defenders of the Faith rulings.
A ruling that was not very popular as far as I know. People wants demon cultists; they're so classic villains, you have to use them at least once !
Plus:
Funny they do this in a Forgotten Realms sourcebook.
As I said, you have to allow demon cultists. In default D&D, this isn't much a problem: demon cultists worship an ethos, and revere a demon prince as their sect's guru. So, they get spells based on the ethos, and every one is happy. In FR, however, only deities can grant spells, not anonymous ethos. So, demon cultists could not get spells in FR... Except if demons (and other outsiders, of course) can be deities and thus grant spells. And everyone is happy.
One thing I continue to fail to understand is why the Great Mother is CE and yet her followers, beholders, are predominately LE? By the rules they cannot choose her as a patron!
LE beholder clerics can't take her as patron, sure. But non-divine-spellcasting classes, such as wizard (or rather, beholder-mage) and mere monster HD are not bound by the one-step rule. A very asocial and petty CE peasant could worship Chauntea, since she's the patron of agriculture. He would probably not really please her, and she would refuse to grant him spells, but since he's not a cleric, druid, ranger or paladin; this don't matter.
Like when they mistakenly refer to Mielikki as Elhonna
And
Odd... They also did that in Magic of Faerun.
In the web-feature "Perilous Gateway", look at the Dusty Rat Inn, in the "Portal in Amn" series. Maybe they've corrected it, but last time I checked there was a cleric of Fthaghn'Rlyeh, I mean, Fharlanghn (I always found this name lovecraftian, no wonder he's a deity of spatiotemporal anomalies (travel), non-euclidean probability (luck) and dark favor of unspeakables ones (protection)).
Now I'm not a big FR-Fanboy, but it strikes me as kinda strange that Chauntea is the most powerful force save Ao.
Is there any explanation given for this? I would have figured Mystra, Lathander, Tempus, Tyr, et al would have been on par with Chauntea, specially since power in the Realms is based on the number of worshippers. I have yet to read any canonical FR material that suggests Chauntea is the most worshipped deity.
It is, to the contrary, perfeclty logical. Chauntea
*IS* Toril. The planet is her body. Every people on Toril depends on Chauntea because she's the very stuff they breathe, eat, drink, walk, and are made of. Chauntea is also the great-great-grandmother of all native life of Toril. Finally, she's the deity of peasant. Last time I checked, there's more peasants in the Realms than adventurers (Tymora, etc.), senile old sage (Mystra), etc. Lathander is probably the 2nd deity with the largest following, then the third ought to be Sharess or Waukeen (if Toril's men are like Earth's men, that is).
Huh? How can an entity have a Divine Rank above 0 and not be considered a deity?
It's a matter of distinction between the concepts of "deity" and "divine being". A deity is a divine being, but not all divine beings are deities. This all boils down to how you definite a deity, in fact. If you just use the simple definition "anything that can be worshipped is a deity", then everything is a deity, period. I guess the D&D definition of a deity is a bit narrower. Maybe we could say being a true deity (rather than merely a being with divine capacities) requires a certain way to grant spells to your worshippers.
As said SKR:
Actually, if you read the section in the book where it talks about worshiping fiends, it never actually refers to them as deities. You're just making a pact (usually for your soul, backed up with frequent sacrifices) and the fiend provides spells drawn from its own power. So the worshiper is in effect a cleric, but doesn't worship a deity.
It must be something in the way the spells comes from the worshipped being to the worshipper.
Strange that clerics of Helm can be lawful evil, the one step rule notwithstanding... Especially when one of his porfolios is paladins.
They can ? I would have though there was some sort of exception, like for St. Cuthbert in GH (a LN deity that can only have LN or LG clerics). Oh well, actually, I can't find any like statement in the FRCS. I guess I'll add that to my FR house rules, just together with the "monks, except those of atheistic orders like the Old Order, get Knowledge (Religion) rather than Knowledge (Arcana)".
Oh, and paladins aren't a part of his portfolio. That's protectors. You can imagine LE protectors (like some kingpin's bodyguard, maybe). Paladins are listed as worshippers, his portfolio is "guardians, protectors, protection".
.
