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<blockquote data-quote="Patryn of Elvenshae" data-source="post: 1722733" data-attributes="member: 23094">Because the only difference between &quot;paper&quot; and &quot;paper with ink&quot; is the color of that paper.If you put a piece of blue paper, red paper, and purple paper next to each other and slightly overlapping, the person with darkvision shouldn't be able to tell the difference - they are unable to distinguish color.If you change the middle piece to black paper, should they suddenly be able to tell the difference?As for seeing shades of grey, yes, there are shades of grey.&nbsp; But they have nothing to do with real-world color.I find that it works best if you think of darkvision as similar to echolocation - things are &quot;colored&quot; based on their distance - closer = whiter, farther = blacker.Thus, engraved runes (dwarves' favored writing method) show up as dark writing on a lighter background, whereas ink on paper isn't enough of a difference in thickness to tell apart.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Patryn of Elvenshae, post: 1722733, member: 23094"] Because the only difference between "paper" and "paper with ink" is the color of that paper. If you put a piece of blue paper, red paper, and purple paper next to each other and slightly overlapping, the person with darkvision shouldn't be able to tell the difference - they are unable to distinguish color. If you change the middle piece to black paper, should they suddenly be able to tell the difference? As for seeing shades of grey, yes, there are shades of grey. But they have nothing to do with real-world color. I find that it works best if you think of darkvision as similar to echolocation - things are "colored" based on their distance - closer = whiter, farther = blacker. Thus, engraved runes (dwarves' favored writing method) show up as dark writing on a lighter background, whereas ink on paper isn't enough of a difference in thickness to tell apart. [/QUOTE]

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