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Old 03-30-2017, 12:41 PM   #18
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Default Re: [Basic] Advantage of the Week (#38): Dark Vision, Night Vision

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Originally Posted by whswhs View Post
There's an ambiguity here. On one hand, vision involves processes taking place in the eyes and the optic nerves that involve light. On the other hand, vision involves processes taking place in the occipital lobes that construct spatial imagery and don't directly involve light. Dark vision seems to be the latter without the former.
That seems like it would then include sonar as Dark Vision, which is not how I think most interpret the advantage's intent.
It's supernatural, so most such subtleties will have to be setting dependent anyway, I guess.
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