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Can a dancing lights spell cast by a lvl 2 bard cause any type of sight condition such as dazzled?
Link to D20srd condition summary page
I ask because last Saturdays game had the bard cast that on the druid goblin in the thistle maze. I voted temporary blindness simply because 4 lights in brightness similar to torches thrust into your eyes would cause some kind of vision impairment. Not to mention it is usually dark in the maze as the ceiling is covered.
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I wouldn't necessarily want it to firmly cause a mechanical condition, especially since its such a low level spell that has a number of non-combat uses.
With that said, I think that it can serve a number of purposes in combat, which like most illusion spells seem like they would lean towards DM fiat.
For instance, we had an encounter in the last session I ran where one of my players was unconscious on a beach far below the rest of the party(his arrival on said beach from the cliff above was actually why he was unconscious). An angry animal was coming out to investigate and the party was trying to do what they could to chase it off to save him. This resulted in a summoned animal that was promptly munched on and a hail of crossbow bolds and the like coming down on the creature. Just to try and by more time, the druid cast down dancing lights, which started buzzing around its head. I figured it was just an animal and so it spent a round snapping at those lights to try and make them go away before it decided they were no harm.
They may not have literally dazed the creature or the like, but based on what they are used on, it may be more or less effective. An intelligent creature may simply ignore them from the start.