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<blockquote data-quote="Hypersmurf" data-source="post: 3184731" data-attributes="member: 1656">Well, I'm on the &quot;Darkness spell creates light&quot; side of the Darkness debate; my reading is that the [Darkness] and [Light] descriptors, in the core rules, have essentially one effect - to describe how they interact with each other.&nbsp; (Counters and dispels light spells of lower level, or whatever, as appears in certain spell descriptions.)It's not necessary for a spell to have the [Light] descriptor to illuminate an area (see Flaming Sphere); nor is it a given that a spell with the [Light] descriptor will illuminate an area (see Sunbeam).&nbsp; As far as I can tell, the only purpose of the [Light] descriptor is to flag interactions with spells with the [Darkness] descriptor.So I don't see any contradiction with a spell with the [Darkness] descriptor illuminating an area.&nbsp; The descriptor isn't telling us &quot;This spell makes things dark&quot;; it's telling us &quot;This spell has a special interaction with certain spells that have the [Light] descriptor&quot;.Similarly, I don't see any contradiction in saying &quot;Casting an [Evil] spell is not automatically an evil act&quot;; rather, I see the descriptor as a flag saying &quot;Look for other rules that reference this descriptor, as they may come into play&quot;.-Hyp.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hypersmurf, post: 3184731, member: 1656"] Well, I'm on the "Darkness spell creates light" side of the Darkness debate; my reading is that the [Darkness] and [Light] descriptors, in the core rules, have essentially one effect - to describe how they interact with each other. (Counters and dispels light spells of lower level, or whatever, as appears in certain spell descriptions.) It's not necessary for a spell to have the [Light] descriptor to illuminate an area (see Flaming Sphere); nor is it a given that a spell with the [Light] descriptor [i]will[/i] illuminate an area (see Sunbeam). As far as I can tell, the [i]only[/i] purpose of the [Light] descriptor is to flag interactions with spells with the [Darkness] descriptor. So I don't see any contradiction with a spell with the [Darkness] descriptor illuminating an area. The descriptor isn't telling us "This spell makes things dark"; it's telling us "This spell has a special interaction with certain spells that have the [Light] descriptor". Similarly, I don't see any contradiction in saying "Casting an [Evil] spell is not automatically an evil act"; rather, I see the descriptor as a flag saying "Look for other rules that reference this descriptor, as they may come into play". -Hyp. [/QUOTE]

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