Light & the lack of dim light. The invisible wall

[orphias]

Light: Aside from the terrible illumination rules (seriously, why remove the additional dim light radius AND make darkvision have no fixed range?), this is an upgrade over its PF1E version.

I read this in another thread, and it got me wondering. So I looked up the Light cantrip - and sure enough there is no dim light radius. A lantern sheds light in a 30-foot radius.

As far as I can tell from reading the Rulebook on page 301 you still have Bright Light and Dim Light., but light sources no longer appear to radiate dim light beyond their light range. Rather than listing their illumination as bright light, they even just say sheds light in...

So...I am assuming that rule has been nerfed? Not something I had noticed.

[Rameth]

In one of the twitch streams Jason Bulmahn said they removed that, as well as some other minor rules, as they just seemed common sense. If a light is bright enough to light up 30 feet with bright light it's very obviously going to emit dim light for quite a bit more than that, well more than double.

Now the problem is that people have been reading these rules and assuming that means there's just no dim light at all. But that wasn't what they intended.

[orphias]

Ah, that may seem to make sense. But sometimes, as in situations like this - being left open to interpretation just causes confusion. Black & White baby. lay it on us. We don't like amorphous understandings, People always get that wrong :)

[Draco18s]

And in another stream he said that it was removed to "make things easier at the table." I.e. GMs didn't have to calculate two separate ranges based on bright and dim.