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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Xorn" data-source="post: 4140577" data-attributes="member: 61231">Oh I'm not stating you did the fight wrong--I was just sharing that my group didn't find the darkness to be overpowering.  But I used the large chamber from Olgar's original adventure, too--so it's a big cavern; there's room to run.  My wizard didn't even slow down--he'd just drop a scorching burst adjacent to the darkness and catch the dragon with it that way, and like I said, my other characters would just stay the heck away.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />But yeah, if you can't get away from the darkness, it's really, really nasty.  But I'm okay with that--don't fight black dragons in a small room.  (I'm pretty sure that rule will extend to any dragon, actually.)  My fighter, paladin, and wizard put attacks on the dragon, darkness or no--but my ranger, cleric, and warlock were indeed quite irked with the effect.That brought up a question too--if area spells are not affected by cover, does that mean Scorching Burst ignores the archer's cover in the Bandit Leaders encounter?</blockquote>