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I was surprised to see the TCE Summon Fey spell got reworked for the new PHB. I was very surprised to see they realized the Tricksy Fey needed the darkness buffed. I was even more surprised to see they did not understand why the darkness needed to be buffed. ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ

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[โ€“] [email protected] 45 points 2 days ago (1 children)

WotC and failing to understand their own game, name a more iconic duo

[โ€“] [email protected] 34 points 2 days ago (1 children)

WotC and betraying its fanbase in the name of Hasbros Profit.

[โ€“] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[โ€“] chemical_cutthroat 12 points 1 day ago

WotC and AI generated art.

[โ€“] TheMinions 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Wait does magical darkness not block anything like line of site?

[โ€“] Archpawn 1 points 1 day ago

Darkness creates a heavily obscured area.

It never actually specifies where the heavily obscured area is. But I think it makes more sense to interpret it as only the area in darkness is heavily obscured. After all, the area behind it depends on the observer, and there's nothing about that what's heavily obscured by darkness depends on where you're standing.

On the other hand, if this just makes everything in that area dark, but still lets light pass through it, you'd still be able to see silhouettes of anyone standing in it, which really doesn't seem like it's heavily obscuring them.

[โ€“] cryptiod137 3 points 1 day ago

No reason it wouldn't block it, not sure what OP is on about

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Maybe they just wanted to improve it for Gloom Stalker Rangers?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

But Umbral Sight works with normal darkness too, and if it doesn't prevent magical or non-magical light from illuminating it, people don't have to rely on darkvision to see them in that magical darkness (if it's illuminated by anything). At least the Hallow darkness effect prevents illumination, so that does work for Gloom stalkers, but this is quite literally useless.