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<blockquote data-quote="Mallus" data-source="post: 6527023" data-attributes="member: 3887">My Tome Pact Warlock just reached 3rd level, and I'm absolutely going to use this shtick. It's certainly powerful, but I'm not sold on overpowered. My PC is the only one with Devil's Sight, so I can't use it within 20'' of another party member. Meaning I can only use the combo when the environment permits, and always with the risk that comes with being a move action away from anyone else. Darkness is a Concentration spell, so it means no Hex/other Concentration spell running. The Darkness field is going to be my main source of defense --unless I use my only other slot on a defensive spell -- otherwise, I'm AC: 14. And it's not as generally useful as Improved Invisibility -- it lacks the stealth advantage, since people will probably notice a giant hemisphere of Ultimate Darkness trying to sneak past them... Oddly, the shtick becomes less powerful if all the PCs have Devil's Sight, because in that case, the DM is going to have to adjust the encounter difficulty &amp; enemy composition to account for the group's (unusual) shared ability in order to present appropriate challenges. In a we-all-can-see-in-magical-darkness party, my guy is just a piker w/a low AC.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mallus, post: 6527023, member: 3887"] My Tome Pact Warlock just reached 3rd level, and I'm absolutely going to use this shtick. It's certainly [i]powerful[/i], but I'm not sold on overpowered. My PC is the only one with Devil's Sight, so I can't use it within 20'' of another party member. Meaning I can only use the combo when the environment permits, and always with the risk that comes with being a move action away from anyone else. Darkness is a Concentration spell, so it means no Hex/other Concentration spell running. The Darkness field is going to be my main source of defense --unless I use my only other slot on a defensive spell -- otherwise, I'm AC: 14. And it's not as generally useful as Improved Invisibility -- it lacks the stealth advantage, since people will probably notice a giant hemisphere of Ultimate Darkness trying to sneak past them... Oddly, the shtick becomes [i]less[/i] powerful if [i]all[/i] the PCs have Devil's Sight, because in that case, the DM is going to have to adjust the encounter difficulty & enemy composition to account for the group's (unusual) shared ability in order to present appropriate challenges. In a we-all-can-see-in-magical-darkness party, my guy is just a piker w/a low AC. [/QUOTE]

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