Wayangs and a 50% Miss Chance

[pippinTook]

I recently got the Blood of Shadows Player Companion and think I have a neat feature for a wayang I've been building, but I'm not entirely sure how to understand one of the alternate racial traits.
The Scion of Shadows (which replaces light and dark and shadow resistance) says that "attacks made against such a wayang in dim light have a 50% miss chance instead of the normal 20% miss chance." Nothing I've looked at about wayangs says anything about there being a 20% miss chance in dim light, however. Therefore, I was unclear of where that comes from and how that is to be understood.
If someone could clarify that or fill in the blank that I seem to be missing, I'd certainly appreciate it. Thanks!

[Alexander Augunas]

pippinTook wrote:

I recently got the Blood of Shadows Player Companion and think I have a neat feature for a wayang I've been building, but I'm not entirely sure how to understand one of the alternate racial traits.

The Scion of Shadows (which replaces light and dark and shadow resistance) says that "attacks made against such a wayang in dim light have a 50% miss chance instead of the normal 20% miss chance." Nothing I've looked at about wayangs says anything about there being a 20% miss chance in dim light, however. Therefore, I was unclear of where that comes from and how that is to be understood.
If someone could clarify that or fill in the blank that I seem to be missing, I'd certainly appreciate it. Thanks!

If you're standing in dim light and your attacker doesn't have darkvision, you have 20% concealment against their attacks.

This is actually the same racial ability that fetchlings have.

[EvilMinion]

Its not a racial thing. Its a factor of dim light conditions.

[Chess Pwn]

I think he's saying the increase of 20% to 50% is the same racial ability?

[Ascalaphus]

People without darkvision, when looking at an enemy in dim light, experience concealment. Concealment causes 20% miss chance.

The ability is written annoyingly, as if everyone got a miss chance from dim light itself, while in reality darkvision is quite common.

[pippinTook]

Thanks for the feedback, everyone!

I didn't realize that dim lighting caused a miss chance. Guess I've GM'd things incorrectly a time or two.

There is a magical item called a palelight torch that makes any area it enters (40' radius) an area of dim light (even lowering normal lighting to dim light). I'm thinking a shield sconce with a palelight torch and my tank now has awesome AC and a 50% miss chance. That's outstanding!

Can one add both a shield sconce and shield spikes?