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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Syrsuro" data-source="post: 4443469" data-attributes="member: 58162">Low light vision is only useless because they need to (imho) errata the section on light sources.    First:  Sunrods are ludicrous.  They need to cost an arm and a leg or have a reasonable radius.  They were put in the game as they are so that lazy DMs wouldn't have to worry about light source radii, they could just go "Oh, you have a sunrod?  Everything is brightly lit."  Simple?  Yes.  Cheesy?  Also yes.  They should reduce its radius in errata (or increase its price). Second:  What happens outside of the radius of a torch (or a sunrod for that matter)?  The book doesn't say.  But common sense (we have torches in the real world, we can extrapolate how they work) tells us that there is a region of dimmer light outside of their radius.  And in this radius, having low light vision matters.  I am currently putting this radius at an additional 5 squares beyond the extent of bright light.  A line to this effect needs to be added to the section on light sources. Third (and this falls into the realm of house rule):  If Dim Light is as Bright Light to a character with low light vision, it follows that there is some level of lighting that would be Dim Light to a charcter with low light vision and Darkness to a character without.  At present I am ruling that, as long as there is a bright light source within line of sight, the lighting is Dim to a character with low light vision, even if it is Dark to a character with normal vision. Carl</blockquote>

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