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<blockquote data-quote="TheCosmicKid" data-source="post: 6876852" data-attributes="member: 6683613">You think scouting was only invented circa 1960?Granted.&nbsp; But nobody lives in those caves.&nbsp; Like&nbsp; [MENTION=6701872]AaronOfBarbaria[/MENTION] said, total darkness hinders most monsters as well as PCs, even with darkvision.&nbsp; I don't expect dwarves to keep their underground kingdoms pitch-black just because they can see dimly for sixty feet, and I don't expect orcs to do it either.&nbsp; (Although as <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQZqbGME5HY" target="_blank">Lindybeige points out</a>, it's implausible that they'd use torches as light fixtures.)Sure, sometimes you're up against grimlocks and then you're enveloped in a blackness deeper and darker than King Lear.&nbsp; A human rogue probably shouldn't scout ahead under those conditions.&nbsp; I dispute, however, that this is a common enough scenario in most campaigns to make human rogues hopeless wastes of space.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TheCosmicKid, post: 6876852, member: 6683613"] You think [I]scouting[/I] was only invented circa 1960? Granted. But nobody lives in those caves. Like [MENTION=6701872]AaronOfBarbaria[/MENTION] said, total darkness hinders most monsters as well as PCs, even with darkvision. I don't expect dwarves to keep their underground kingdoms pitch-black just because they can see dimly for sixty feet, and I don't expect orcs to do it either. (Although as [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQZqbGME5HY]Lindybeige points out[/url], it's implausible that they'd use torches as light fixtures.) Sure, sometimes you're up against grimlocks and then you're enveloped in a blackness deeper and darker than [I]King Lear[/I]. A human rogue probably shouldn't scout ahead under those conditions. I dispute, however, that this is a common enough scenario in most campaigns to make human rogues hopeless wastes of space. [/QUOTE]

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