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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FormerlyHemlock" data-source="post: 6874559" data-attributes="member: 6787650">I'm often surprised by how few players and DMs seem to properly exploit the most common vision-affecting condition of all: night time.Monsters with darkvision should preferentially operate at night, in open spaces. It's how they can counter ranged dominance. E.g. orcs and wargs attacking a town can hide in the dark and sneak up on the town guards with their longbows. In daylight the orcs are sitting ducks, but that's not a problem because night time. Counterplay from the town guards involves bonfires and torches and such, but since that's expensive, it happens only when the danger is known in advance.Meanwhile, PCs can exploit Darkness against the orcs by having one PC light the enemy up (e.g. Dancing Lights, or just one PC with a torch and a good AC and/or Alert) while the other PCs kill them from out of darkvision range, with advantage.Hmmm. I was going to have a gnoll attack tonight but now I realize I should make it happen at night. One of my players has a blind PC anyway, she'll love it...</blockquote>