Ok so the spell darkness says it lowers the light blah blah blah, so if it lowers the light to total darkness, do the people inside it still have concealment or total concealment against a creature with darkvision? I ask this because the spell itself says that it grants concealment in lowlight and total in darkness, so is that from the light change or is the spell granting concealment?
Basically if my rogue is in a darkness spell, getting ranged SA can he get one against a creature with darkvision?
From the PRD under Darkness: "Creatures with darkvision can see in an area of dim light or darkness without penalty."
So you would gain no concealment as the creature with darkvision can see with out penalty. So the without penalty means they aren't affected by the concealment Darkness grants.
The spell does nothing more than enhance the excisting darkness, it just mentions the effects (in a somewhat clumsy manner).
dim light gives creatures 20 % concealment, total darkness gives 50 % concealment (basically blind), darkvision negates the effect alltogether.
If you have darkvision you could SA creatures in total darkness provided they do not have darkvision, if they do the spell is useless against them so you can not sneak attack them by virtue of this spell.
Yet another change for PF? I remember the spell specifically mentioning Darkvision couldn't pierce it in 3.5.
The infravision effecting one is now "deeper darkness" (p.265, 3rd level cleric spell)
/spanks Kempton
it's darkvision, you are showing off your old age
oops, sorry ... I never claimed not to be old.