Light Passing through Darkness

[doktorstick]

Does darkness prevent light from passing through? The silence spell specifically says that it does, but darkness does not.

/ds

 

[the Jester]

Heh... I put my reply to this one in your other thread, but here's my thinking:

If darkness is not an illusion, it should definitely stop light from passing through it.

If it is an illusion, I'm not sure; silence stops noise from passing through and it's an illusion, iirc... though idhmbifom.

 

[doktorstick]

Heh... I put my reply to this one in your other thread, but here's my thinking:

Yeah, sorry about that. I accidentally hit "reply" instead of "new topic". My bad.

To answer your other question, darkness is an evocation whereas silence is an illusion (glamer).

/ds

 

[the Jester]

Hey, it happens to the best of us...

What's worse is when you 'reply' to someone in a new thread and then everyone's really confused. Been there, done that.

 

[kreynolds]

Does darkness prevent light from passing through? The silence spell specifically says that it does, but darkness does not.

Possibly. Darkness counters or dispels any light source of equal or lower level.

 

[The Souljourner]

It has to prevent light from going through it, otherwise you'd be able to see right through a darkness spell - it would just become a mass invisibility spell... think about it - light comes in from outside the darkness, passes through it, and out the other side, that would mean you could see what's on the other side, you just couldn't see what's inside it.

Kind of an interesting thought problem though.

-The Souljourner

 

[Berk]

interesting question, never really thought of that

I would personally say that darkness blocks all light, so if a darkness spell is cast on a light source, no light from that source is present.

 

[doktorstick]

I would personally say that darkness blocks all light, so if a darkness spell is cast on a light source, no light from that source is present.

That is definitely true. The text of the spell says that if cast on a light source it extinguishes it, or rather nullifies it. But in my example, you have a light source outside of the darkness (such as a bullseye lantern).

Keep in mind I'm not arguing one way or the other. But it makes for an interesting tactic if ambient light from behind the characters lights the room and someone drops a darkness spell inbetween the light source and the characters. Does the room go pitch black (assuming the darkness spell touches wall-to-wall and ceiling-to-floor)?

/ds

 

[Berk]

Keep in mind I'm not arguing one way or the other. But it makes for an interesting tactic if ambient light from behind the characters lights the room and someone drops a darkness spell inbetween the light source and the characters. Does the room go pitch black (assuming the darkness spell touches wall-to-wall and cieling-to-floor)?

Personally I would say yeah. Even if it didn't touch wall to wall and ceiling to ceiling it would reduce the amount of light in the room depending on how much is actually blacked out. I've pretty much always actually played it that way when I DM.