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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hypersmurf" data-source="post: 3947999" data-attributes="member: 1656">When I ran RttToEE, I had the hobgoblins who lived in the ground floor of the old temple completely black out all the windows etc.The PCs had light sources, but a torch or light spell only sheds light (of any sort) out to 40 feet, and the hobgoblins have darkvision that sees further than that... and the temple is huge.The hobgoblins stood in the darkness and shot at the PCs; if the PCs moved to bring them into the light, they'd back off; if the PCs threw rocks with light spells on them, they'd pick them up and put them in a pocket.The crazy PC monk charged off into the darkness and tried to take on two hobgoblins in melee while effectively blind.  That was discovered to be a Bad Idea.I ran a similarly-themed encounter in a PbP, in smaller quarters but using the No Light cantrip from BoVD, which (unlike the Darkness spell) doesn't mess with Darkvision.  The gnolls could all see just fine; the PCs couldn't.Messing with people's lines of sight can be incredibly effective <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=":)" />-Hyp.</blockquote>