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Dalin · 12-02-2019, 05:26 PM

[QUOTE=Unwitting Pawn;2298196]I'm assuming that the Dark Vision advantage works as well as the Dark Vision spell, but I'd like to know if others agree with that assessment, or indeed whether it has been expressly stated somewhere?[/QUOTE]

As far as I know, this hasn't been stated unequivocally in DFRPG. The Dark Vision advantage, however, only appears in Monsters (p. 10) where it is described "as if under a permanent Dark Vision spell." This suggests that monsters with the trait can ignore magically created darkness.

In GURPS (shhh!), this interpretation is explicitly stated in the text of both the Dark Vision advantage (B47) and in the Darkness and Blackout spell descriptions (Magic, pp. 111-112).

12-02-2019, 05:26 PM	#30
Dalin Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Saint Paul, MN	Re: Darkness, visibility and to hit penalties [QUOTE=Unwitting Pawn;2298196]I'm assuming that the Dark Vision advantage works as well as the Dark Vision spell, but I'd like to know if others agree with that assessment, or indeed whether it has been expressly stated somewhere?[/QUOTE] As far as I know, this hasn't been stated unequivocally in DFRPG. The Dark Vision advantage, however, only appears in *Monsters* (p. 10) where it is described "as if under a permanent Dark Vision spell." This suggests that monsters with the trait can ignore magically created darkness. In GURPS (shhh!), this interpretation is explicitly stated in the text of both the Dark Vision advantage (B47) and in the Darkness and Blackout spell descriptions (*Magic*, pp. 111-112).