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Spells of Light and Darkness: The Art of the Flame and Void (OGL) PDF
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Spells of Light and Dark: The Art of the Flame and Void contains 50+ spells themed around magical light and darkness. While many may merely dabble with the unrefracted glory of magical light and the stygian forces of magical darkness, there are great wonders and terrible powers to be harnessed by those willing to master their might...

Animate Shadow
Banefire
Blacksight
Blinding Burst
Blinding Light
Blindsight Cocoon
Control Shadows
Dark Shroud
Eclipse
Endless Daylight
Endless Night
Endless Twilight
Flare
Gloomsight
Hidden Shadow
Incandescent Burst
Midnight Shroud
Moonlight
Obfuscate the Hidden Eye
Orb of Darkness
Orb of Light
Radiant Infusion
Shadow Chains
Shadowsheen
Shadow Spy
Shroud of Brilliance
Starflame
Touch of Shadow
True Darkness
Unholy Darknes
Unholy Gloom
Utterdark Shroud
Wall of Brilliance
Wall of Shadows
...and many more!

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The opening discussion talks about how most spellcasters, arcane and divine alike, are liable to have at least dabbled with magic involving either light or darkness, or indeed both; but that for those prepared to delve deeper great power is to be found. Most spells with either the light or the dark descriptor are to be found in the Evocation school of magic, and can negate or dispel those with the other descriptor.

There then follows a collection of spells around the themes of manipulating light and darkness, drawn from a variety of sources with some being original and other having been modified from the original source (or in the case of those from the core rulebooks, the errata have been applied).

Overall, it's an interesting thematic collection, and could be of use to either someone playing a spellcaster who'd like to specialise in this area or the DM preparing spellbooks for his NPCs (or to be found as look); a timesaver if you don't want to delve through all your spell collections. But it lacks much in the way of commentary to link the spells within the light/dark theme or show the particular ways in which a specialist in light (or darkness) might use them to greater effect than a mere dabbler. A good start, though, but it could do with more work to become the sort of scholarly study mages really want!