Unnerfing Darkness?

[Ferret]

That looks perfect. At first the darkvision light-vision confused me at first, but now I can see it's true perfection.

 

[ecliptic]

What about cloudy day and twilight?

 

[Gez]

A normal day is cloudy.
Twilight is equivalent of firelight or moonlight.

 

[Liquidsabre]

The daylight and darkness spells would raise and lower the illumination by a factor of 3, up to a maximum of their namesake. Obscuring mist would lower it by 1, up to Dim Light. A candle would raise it by 1, up to firelight, and a torch by 2, up to low-light.

The list with descriptions that Sammael posted looks great, a neat idea! I'm curious Gez, would you have the spells darkness (2nd level) and daylight (3rd level) raise/lower illumination by different degrees. Say darkness may lower illimunation by 3 but daylight (being a higher level spells) raises by 4.

Hmm, so someone casting daylight in a naturally dark cave would get Starlight illumination? What happens if they cast it twice? Brightest day? This leaves room for higher level light spells to provide greater change in the degree of illumination.