Eclipsed Spell

[Markov Spiked Chain]

If you use Eclipsed Spell from Blood of Shadows to make your [light] descriptor spell reduce the light level, does it switch to the [darkness] descriptor?

It doesn't specifically say it does, but the rules for [light] and [darkness] spells interacting get muddled if you have two [light] spells pulling the light level different ways.

[Slithery D]

I think it switches.

[Ridiculon]

i'd say it still has its original descriptor.

here's an example of one that actually changes the descriptor

[Arim Shadeborn]

It would be really great if you could use this metamagic to get more spells to qualify for Shadow Grasp. It seems RAW that it doesn't work that way, however.

[Ridiculon]

which feat are you referring to Arim?

[Claxon]

Much like using the elemental spell feat doesn't actually change the descriptor of the spell, neither would this ability because it doesn't specify that it does.

Basically, your eclipsed light spell doesn't automatically the same light spell. Instead of doing anything, they would just cancel one another out because they make the same amount of adjustment to the ambient light level.

[Arim Shadeborn]

Ridiculon wrote:

which feat are you referring to Arim?

I meant Eclipsed Spell would work great with Shadow Grasp if the rules were a little different. I've found it difficult to come up with good spells to use Shadow Grasp on since it almost requires using Umbral Spell to give spells a darkness descriptor.