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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Greenfield" data-source="post: 5954510" data-attributes="member: 6669384">Yeah, it's better labeled as Dimness than Darkness.As mentioned, our DM was going to have us march a full day's travel, through coastal Scotland, in pitch-black darkness that couldn't be penetrated.The only guide to get where we were going would be to try and stay on the road, mostly by feel, and hope we didn't make a wrong turn.  He also had the road laced with magical booby traps.Once we got a Deeper Darkness up, which gave us a 40 foot diameter circle in which we could see (dimly) the main challenge of his entire scenario evaporated.  He was having us hit by wandering groups of zombies and other lesser undead, but once line-of-sight became possible our Cleric just dusted them.The DM decided to fast-forward the entire journey, and then to drop the Darkness effect altogether when we reached the city.  He realized that he needed his city guards to be able to see us if they were to be effective.We finished the scenario in one sitting, which was less than half the time he had anticipated.  What surprised us was that he didn't know that Darkness isn't pitch-black any more.  He missed our jokes about this being an "ancient curse dating back to 1st Edition".  He hadn't realized that what he was doing flatly didn't exist under the rules, except under Rule Zero.Long story short, we got a little Exp (not much, since the opponents were all CR 5 and 6 up until the end), a bit of loot (haven't appraised or Identified yet), a few stat points to recover (a "creeping madness" effect that had us roll Will saves to avoid Wisdom loss), and a more or less walkover fight.  And oh yeah, my character ended up in Hell.  But he'll be back momentarily, presuming that that his current Wisdom of 4 will allow him to throw Dismissal on himself. <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=":)" /></blockquote>

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