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<blockquote data-quote="Murrdox" data-source="post: 921570" data-attributes="member: 10131">Well, it also makes Darkvision, good lighting, Glitterdust, Invisibility Purge, and Blindsight more powerful and useful as well.Take the following scenaro.&nbsp; A group of fighters is walking down a dungeon corridor, where they're ambushed by several Orcs.&nbsp; An orc shaman casts Gust of Wind, and the torches of the party members are blown out.&nbsp; Aside from an elven wizard, the rest of the party is now blind.&nbsp; Several of the orcs begin combat with the front line fighters, and several other orcs take advantage of the darkness to slip past the fighters and attack the wizard in the rear of the party.&nbsp; The wizard quickly casts Darkvision on a nearby fighter to help protect him from the orcs.If you could still take attacks of opportunity while blind, the orcs wouldn't be able to &quot;slip by&quot;, which almost negates the entire purpose of the tactic.&nbsp; You'd also have to deal with the party in a crowded space moving amongst each other, CONSTANTLY provoking &quot;friendly&quot; attacks of opportunity.&nbsp; Darkvision also becomes much more valuable, since now that the recipient can see, he can once again make AoO against the orcs.The implications on hiding characters?&nbsp; I can't really think of any off the top of my head, unless a character is hiding in such a way that he can't see the people he's hiding from.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Murrdox, post: 921570, member: 10131"] Well, it also makes Darkvision, good lighting, Glitterdust, Invisibility Purge, and Blindsight more powerful and useful as well. Take the following scenaro. A group of fighters is walking down a dungeon corridor, where they're ambushed by several Orcs. An orc shaman casts Gust of Wind, and the torches of the party members are blown out. Aside from an elven wizard, the rest of the party is now blind. Several of the orcs begin combat with the front line fighters, and several other orcs take advantage of the darkness to slip past the fighters and attack the wizard in the rear of the party. The wizard quickly casts Darkvision on a nearby fighter to help protect him from the orcs. If you could still take attacks of opportunity while blind, the orcs wouldn't be able to "slip by", which almost negates the entire purpose of the tactic. You'd also have to deal with the party in a crowded space moving amongst each other, CONSTANTLY provoking "friendly" attacks of opportunity. Darkvision also becomes much more valuable, since now that the recipient can see, he can once again make AoO against the orcs. The implications on hiding characters? I can't really think of any off the top of my head, unless a character is hiding in such a way that he can't see the people he's hiding from. [/QUOTE]

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