Sunlight sensitivity only g9ves you disadvantage when you are in DIRECT sunlight, chill out in the shade, or you can slap on some goggles (like eyes of night) or anything that stops your eyeballs from being in direct sunlight...get your artificer to make you some sunglasses or something, or ask your DM of you can be a surface drow, exchanging your 120 feet for just 60
Glasses or goggles that protect the eyes would probably be a good solution, but a Drow's Sunlight sensitivity isn't exclusively for when the Drow themselves are in sunlight... aiming at a target who is in full sunlight gives disadvantage still, otherwise a Drow could just wear a big floppy hat and be fine.
Sunlight sensitivity only g9ves you disadvantage when you are in DIRECT sunlight, chill out in the shade, or you can slap on some goggles (like eyes of night) or anything that stops your eyeballs from being in direct sunlight...get your artificer to make you some sunglasses or something, or ask your DM of you can be a surface drow, exchanging your 120 feet for just 60
Sunlight sensitivity affects more than just the eyes.
Being subterranean they would have not evolved a defense mechanism such as melanin to protect themselves against UV rays. It’s kind of akin to albinism.
IRL there are subterranean species that are so light sensitive that even flash photography causes them physical pain such as the Human Fish.
Indeed. Chris Perkins and Jeremy Crawford have both indicated as much - not to mention that, as TransmorpherDDS points out, it also applies when trying to see or attack something that is in sunlight, even when the sunlight-sensitive creature is not in sunlight.
Glasses or goggles that protect the eyes would probably be a good solution, but a Drow's Sunlight sensitivity isn't exclusively for when the Drow themselves are in sunlight... aiming at a target who is in full sunlight gives disadvantage still, otherwise a Drow could just wear a big floppy hat and be fine.
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ModeratorIndeed. Chris Perkins and Jeremy Crawford have both indicated as much - not to mention that, as TransmorpherDDS points out, it also applies when trying to see or attack something that is in sunlight, even when the sunlight-sensitive creature is not in sunlight.
Perkins: https://twitter.com/ChrisPerkinsDnD/status/842555496900964353
Also: https://twitter.com/ChrisPerkinsDnD/status/893639078217883648
And Crawford: https://twitter.com/JeremyECrawford/status/805827268790480896
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