Greetings all.
I have a question concerning the level 3 spell shadowming.
It states that creatures who fail their will save perceive the light as being one category darker, and that since it is an illusion effect, this works regardless of their natural vision (such as darkvision)
Does this mean that in the case of a party with darkvision fighting ennemies with darkvision in complete darkness, any ennemies that fail their saves would perceive the darkness as being 1 step worst (complete darkness remains complete darkness) and thus have their darkvision entirely negated?
I mean that doesn't sound too strong for a situational level 3 illusion spell, I'd just like to know how the boards read it before going forward.
It would seem so, which seems pretty strong to me for a 2nd level spell (for antipaladins, inquisitors, and witches). At least you get a save.
I suspect they may have meant to lower one's perceptions one step, so that if you have darkvision and things should look like normal light to you they look dim light instead... but that's certainly not what the author did.
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Interesting. A strong argument could be made that an intelligent creature that can see even in deeper darkness would automatically recognize this as an illusion (since it knows that it can see in even deeper darkness). Or a counter argument could be made that it would think it had been blinded :-).
But this part of the spell
"However, the spell creates an illusion of darkness rather than actual darkness, so low-light and darkvision don’t allow a target to see in the conditions created by the spell. Even targets that see normally through magical darkness suffer a loss of vision from this spell."
seem pretty clear. Yeah, in the right circumstances that is a VERY powerful spell.
As far as I know, shadowming is a Phantasm not a figment and thus cannot be disbelieved.
Unless they changed it in pf.
But nice. I'll dm proof this.