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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lord Pendragon" data-source="post: 1723194" data-attributes="member: 707">I've always interpreted Darkvision similarly to the way Patryn does.  Rather than a b&w movie, which sees the world exactly as a color movie does, but translates everything into greyscale, I think of darkvision as the equivalent of an untrasound.  It shows you object shapes and spacial relationships in a place where there is no light.  As there is no light, there is no differentiation of colors, including black and white.  The black and white of the image represent contours, textures, and shapes.  Not the actual colors, which are indistinguishable to darkvision.So with the way I rule it, a person using only darkvision cannot read with darkvision.  It's a drawback of the sight.  On the plus side, it works quite well in combat and for sneaking.Of course, darkvision is not ultrasonic sight, though I think that analogy works best.  It still functions in an area of Silence, and cannot function through solid objects.  It also behaves similarly to normal sight, in terms of which effects/spells block and, and which do not.My only response to this is to assume that it works in a non-visual way that is not defined any further in the rules for simplicity's sake.Regarding darkvision vs. blindsight, I've always thought of darkvision as semi-blindsight.  The weakest form of it, if you will.  It cannot pierce invisibility like true blightsight can, but it is one step in that direction.</blockquote>

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