D&D General Which D&D Words and Things are Post 1608?

[Azzy]

It's more realistic than "sees in the dark". And more interesting. There are a lot of different ways to see in the dark, and different ways to counter it.

Lol. More realistic is the opposite of fantastic. So, I don't know where you were going with that.

And maybe infravision may be more interesting to you, but to me it's immersion-breaking having elves and other fantasy species have Predator-vision.

 

[Lanefan]

Lol. More realistic is the opposite of fantastic. So, I don't know where you were going with that.

And maybe infravision may be more interesting to you, but to me it's immersion-breaking having elves and other fantasy species have Predator-vision.

Elves don't have infravision. Dwarves and other underground-dwelling species do.

Elves and other forest-y surface folk tend toward ultravision.

 

[Cadence]

Lol. More realistic is the opposite of fantastic. So, I don't know where you were going with that.

And maybe infravision may be more interesting to you, but to me it's immersion-breaking having elves and other fantasy species have Predator-vision.

Elves don't have infravision. Dwarves and other underground-dwelling species do.

Elves and other forest-y surface folk tend toward ultravision.

To not derail this thread... moved some vision things to:

D&D General - Types of Vision for D&D and Other Fantasy RPGs (Besides Darkvision)

So 1e had Ultravision and Infravision. 3.5 had Low-Light and Darkvision and 5e has Darkvision. The former sounds too sci-fi to some and the later is too ubiquitous and overpowered to some. What would you put in a fantasy game? For me, it was kind of cool looking up the variety of eye types...

www.enworld.org

where I start by throwing out five suggestions of my own.

 

[Azzy]

Elves don't have infravision. Dwarves and other underground-dwelling species do.

Elves and other forest-y surface folk tend toward ultravision.

Huh. My 1e, (and 2e) PHB and my BECMI sets say otherwise. None of the species in those sources had Ultravision.

 

[Cadence]

Huh. My 1e, (and 2e) PHB and my BECMI sets say otherwise. None of the species in those sources had Ultravision.

View attachment 268869

Ultravision list... (did not check for accuracy):

Ultravision

Ultravision was a type of vision possessed by many creatures in the Realms that allowed them to see in some instances of darkness.[1][2][3] Ultravision allowed a creature to see radiation in the ultraviolet spectrum, above what was possible by normal eyesight.[1][2][3] This included gamma rays...

forgottenrealms.fandom.com

 

[Azzy]

Ultravision list... (did not check for accuracy):

Ultravision

Ultravision was a type of vision possessed by many creatures in the Realms that allowed them to see in some instances of darkness.[1][2][3] Ultravision allowed a creature to see radiation in the ultraviolet spectrum, above what was possible by normal eyesight.[1][2][3] This included gamma rays...

forgottenrealms.fandom.com

Right, I was limiting it to the player-facing species in 1e/2e/BECMI.

 

[Cadence]

Right, I was limiting it to the player-facing species in 1e/2e/BECMI.

I was just providing the confirmation for that

 

[Azzy]

I was just providing the confirmation for that

Ah, I misunderstood.

 

[Hussar]

Elves don't have infravision. Dwarves and other underground-dwelling species do.

Elves and other forest-y surface folk tend toward ultravision.

Not in any edition of DnD.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Lol. More realistic is the opposite of fantastic. So, I don't know where you were going with that.

And maybe infravision may be more interesting to you, but to me it's immersion-breaking having elves and other fantasy species have Predator-vision.

So, by that argument, we should also not have gravity in the game, since it wasn't discovered in 1608.