Let's say there is an afternoon thunderstorm, and the environment becomes Lightly Obscured. Does Sunlight Sensitivitystill apply to a creature such as Wraith?
How about a foggy situation when the area becomes Heavily Obscured?
Note: Sunlight Sensitivity. While in sunlight, the wraith has Disadvantage on ability checks and attack rolls.
If I'm not mistaken, sunlight isn't actually defined in the game.
As a DM, I'd rule Lightly Obscured (like shadows from a dense forest) or Heavily Obscured areas (e.g. some spells) count as not being in direct sunlight.
But I also think this falls into DM territory, and it depends on the specific case scenario.
If I'm not mistaken, sunlight isn't actually defined in the game.
That is mostly true. It is one of those things that the game expects the DM to adjudicate the specifics of because sunlight by itself doesn't have any properties (much like how creature types doesn't have any special properties of their own, they are just used as designators for any other rules that do have effects that depend upon being a specified type).
Game features and effects that create sunlight do explicitly say so (and also explains any special effects of it) but there is nothing that I know of that says anything about natural sunlight. So a DM would have to decide for himself if the normal light during daytime is considered sunlight in the setting their game takes place (I'd say that the expectation is that it normally should be).
If I'm not mistaken, sunlight isn't actually defined in the game.
That is mostly true. It is one of those things that the game expects the DM to adjudicate the specifics of because sunlight by itself doesn't have any properties (much like how creature types doesn't have any special properties of their own, they are just used as designators for any other rules that do have effects that depend upon being a specified type).
Game features and effects that create sunlight do explicitly say so (and also explains any special effects of it) but there is nothing that I know of that says anything about natural sunlight. So a DM would have to decide for himself if the normal light during daytime is considered sunlight in the setting their game takes place (I'd say that the expectation is that it normally should be).
Agreed.
After writing the post, I found some interesting threads about this topic:
Let's say there is an afternoon thunderstorm, and the environment becomes Lightly Obscured. Does Sunlight Sensitivity still apply to a creature such as Wraith?
How about a foggy situation when the area becomes Heavily Obscured?
Note: Sunlight Sensitivity. While in sunlight, the wraith has Disadvantage on ability checks and attack rolls.
If I'm not mistaken, sunlight isn't actually defined in the game.
As a DM, I'd rule Lightly Obscured (like shadows from a dense forest) or Heavily Obscured areas (e.g. some spells) count as not being in direct sunlight.
But I also think this falls into DM territory, and it depends on the specific case scenario.
That is mostly true. It is one of those things that the game expects the DM to adjudicate the specifics of because sunlight by itself doesn't have any properties (much like how creature types doesn't have any special properties of their own, they are just used as designators for any other rules that do have effects that depend upon being a specified type).
Game features and effects that create sunlight do explicitly say so (and also explains any special effects of it) but there is nothing that I know of that says anything about natural sunlight. So a DM would have to decide for himself if the normal light during daytime is considered sunlight in the setting their game takes place (I'd say that the expectation is that it normally should be).
Agreed.
After writing the post, I found some interesting threads about this topic:
- Shadow of Moil and Sunlight Sensitivity (reply #23 is worth a look)
- Does Fog Cloud block sunlight?