Legitimate light source for those underdark crawls...

[Piratecat]

Hey, turns out they're real!

Bio-luminescent fungus

 

[GwydapLlew]

Sweet! I, for one, welcome our new bioluminescent fungal overlords.

 

[Aeric]

That's great news!

Now my party can release their glow-pigs to roam free in the wild, as nature intended!

 

[RangerWickett]

Cool. I wanted to go to Sao Paulo anyway. Now while I'm there I can go dungeon crawling.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Pfft! Don't coddle your players! Nine months of darkness with only the light sources they create for them!

And make them watch Descent in a blacked-out room before you play your first session.

 

[Baron Opal]

Does this mean Mycanid is Brazillian?

 

[Klaus]

Cool. I wanted to go to Sao Paulo anyway. Now while I'm there I can go dungeon crawling.

"Dungeon crawling"? Is that what the kids are callin' it these days?

 

[Snapdragyn]

The real 'reality' issue was never biolumenescence, but the presence (and size) of fungi deep in cave systems. The entire Underdark ecology pretty much requires some sort of magiphagy as a basis for the energy in the system.

 

[Hypersmurf]

Legitimate light source for those underdark crawls...

What, the Darkness spell isn't a good enough light source for you any more?

-Hyp.

 

[Slife]

Pfft! Don't coddle your players! Nine months of darkness with only the light sources they create for them!

And make them watch Descent in a blacked-out room before you play your first session.

Continual flame. Done.

Or, if you prefer, Summon Monster IV, Lantern Archon, unlimited free Continual Flames.



Besides, 3.5 "darkness" isn't that dark.