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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whimsical" data-source="post: 1728617" data-attributes="member: 3976">Oh, I have one. It's so bad to me that I occasionally find myself screaming "NO NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!" at my memory, hoping my voice will go back into time to my ears at the time.I was running a RPGA Living Greyhawk adventure at a gaming con and set up a combat scenario to be set outdoors during the night. I informed everyone that there would be regular concealment level of darkness outside so that everyone could see each other but there was a 20% miss chance for their attacks. The player playing the elf infomed me that he should be able to see just fine out here. I "corrected" him informing him that although he can see twice the distance with a local light source, that since the moon was so far it pretty much made everything the same level of concealment for everyone. Another player politely read the low light vision rule to me out of the book, and in my mind I thought that my explanation fit what he read. To the players' credit, they stopped trying to persuade me and let the game continue without further comment, while I was having the elf roll his 20% miss chance for his attacks along with everyone else (and he did miss a couple of attacks because of it.)  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /> It was only after the con did I realize my mistake. I was really stuck on the idea that there was "light", "darkness", and "total darkness" and it was only afterwards did I realize that there were four levels of illumination (or lack thereof):Normal / Low-Light <ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Light / Light</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Darkness / Light</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Total Darkness / Darkness</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Total Darkness / Total Darkness</li> </ol>Now, this may not seem like a big deal to others, but I tend to have a high quality knowledge and understanding of the rules and tend to be the rules guru for the gamers I game with. And if I'm not sure about something, I won't state that something that I think is true is true. I'll qualify it or do some spot researching just to make sure. It's just that this time I was sure about something that wasn't true. And since I would like to be regarded as an expert on the rules and to be able to be trusted with my word, this little slipup pains me.</blockquote>

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