Monstrous Compendium Vol. 1: Spelljammer Creatures
Frozen Sick
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There are changes between 2014 and 2024 versions of Daylight spell. The 2014 Daylight description mentions bright light. The 2024 Daylight description mentions sunlight.
If anyone is a DM, how would you rule the spell for effects against vampires? Would you count it as affecting vampires if in an indoor location?
A Vampire would takes 20 Radiant damage if it starts its turn in sunlight from Daylight spell and while in it would have Disadvantage on attack rolls and ability checks.
I agree. The difference between 5e and 5.5e was also commented here:
Slightly related: 2024 Daylight and Sanctuary interactions, and vampires!
Just to expand on what the others have said, the whole point of the spell explicitly defining its effect as sunlight is so that you can use it in a situation where it being sunlight matters, but where you don't have easy access to natural sunlight — such as while fighting vampires indoors.
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Vampires are affected by sunlight, not daylight - which is kinda dumb, but it is a difference.
AFAIK, there are three spells that produce vampire harming sunlight - Dawn, Sunbeam and Sunburst.
And there's of course the Sun Sword/Sun Blade, which also explicitly produces Sunlight.
Yes, which is exactly what was asked in the original question. The wording of the spell was changed for 2024 rules. The 2024 rules explicitly say sunlight.
This depends on the rules that are used as mentioned above.
As to the original question, we're playing with the 2014, but I've made some homebrew adaptions. I also don't see a reason why a spell called Daylight wouldn't be treated as sunlight, but according to RAW, it's not, so I've modified some spells to make more sense. Mostly I've gone with that if an effect explicitly says it's sunlight, it is. Otherwise it's just magical light and thus doesn't have any effect for creatures with sunlight (hyper)sensitivity.
The 5.5e Daylight spell also explicitly produces sunlight, as has been stated in almost every post in this thread.
pronouns: he/she/they
This is a gift of sunlight for you: Sunlight
Yes, I even mentioned the same spell in my post. But what I didn't explain though is that we're playing with 2014 rules and even though those rules don't count it as sunlight, I count it as sunlight (2024 rules). I've made a few adaptations as I said.
It was just a tooltip joke :'( FWIW, your previous was already clear :)
Thank you for your Guidance nonetheless.
How to add Tooltips.
My houserulings.
Ah, sorry. My sarcasm inspector was off-duty.