Does a warlock with Devil's Sight Get Advantage when attack from Darkness using a longbow?
The idea is that you get advantage on an attack when an enemy can't see you but you can see them. If you are in the center in the darkness and have Devil's Sight, would you have advantage on your attack?
Yes, but bear in mind that Darkness will shut off any light-producing spells of 2nd level or lower that it overlaps with, so if you're in a dark place and your friends are using the Light spell to see, they have to stay at least 47.5 feet away from you to avoid having their light dispelled.
If the enemy is in the Darkness, it is effectively blinded, so you would have advantage.
If the enemy is outside of the area of darkness, it wouldn’t be blinded but if you are hidden, you have advantage.
If the enemy is outside of the Darkness, you are inside but you are not hidden? Here is where you might get a difference of opinion. If anyone can find the text that nails this down, please share it.
The enemy could hear you, then hear the bow shot and then see the arrow once it leaves the darkness.
PHB: "When a creature can't see you, you have advantage on attack rolls against it." (p195)
Not hidden, just unseen.
Edit: it also clarifies in the next sentence: "If you are hidden--both unseen and unheard--blah blah blah..." So you get the attack advantage when attacking from inside darkness, yes.
Players Handbook page 195-196. "When you attack a target that you can't see, you have disadvantage on the attack roll." "When a creature can't see you, you have advantage on attack rolls against it."
So an enemy outside the Darkness, who cannot see you, would be at disadvantage to attack you. You would have advantage to attack them if you had Devil's Sight or some other means of seeing them. If you could not see them the disadvantage for not being able to see them would cancel the advantage for them to being able to see you and you would just roll a normal attack.
Being hidden is a seperate issue to being seen or unseen. If you attack while hidden you give away your location. If you were hidden and in Darknesss you would give away your location, no longer Hidden, but would still be unseen.
Yes, but bear in mind that Darkness will shut off any light-producing spells of 2nd level or lower that it overlaps with, so if you're in a dark place and your friends are using the Light spell to see, they have to stay at least 47.5 feet away from you to avoid having their light dispelled.
Interesting interaction. I hadn't noticed the overlap with the area of light would dispel the light spell, I had usually thought of it as the center point/object from which the light was being emitted. However, light is a 40' radius and darkness is 15' so why is the distance 47.5' and not 55'?
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Does a warlock with Devil's Sight Get Advantage when attack from Darkness using a longbow?
The idea is that you get advantage on an attack when an enemy can't see you but you can see them. If you are in the center in the darkness and have Devil's Sight, would you have advantage on your attack?
Yes, but bear in mind that Darkness will shut off any light-producing spells of 2nd level or lower that it overlaps with, so if you're in a dark place and your friends are using the Light spell to see, they have to stay at least 47.5 feet away from you to avoid having their light dispelled.
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If the enemy is in the Darkness, it is effectively blinded, so you would have advantage.
If the enemy is outside of the area of darkness, it wouldn’t be blinded but if you are hidden, you have advantage.
If the enemy is outside of the Darkness, you are inside but you are not hidden? Here is where you might get a difference of opinion. If anyone can find the text that nails this down, please share it.
The enemy could hear you, then hear the bow shot and then see the arrow once it leaves the darkness.
PHB: "When a creature can't see you, you have advantage on attack rolls against it." (p195)
Not hidden, just unseen.
Edit: it also clarifies in the next sentence: "If you are hidden--both unseen and unheard--blah blah blah..." So you get the attack advantage when attacking from inside darkness, yes.
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Players Handbook page 195-196. "When you attack a target that you can't see, you have disadvantage on the attack roll." "When a creature can't see you, you have advantage on attack rolls against it."
So an enemy outside the Darkness, who cannot see you, would be at disadvantage to attack you. You would have advantage to attack them if you had Devil's Sight or some other means of seeing them. If you could not see them the disadvantage for not being able to see them would cancel the advantage for them to being able to see you and you would just roll a normal attack.
Being hidden is a seperate issue to being seen or unseen. If you attack while hidden you give away your location. If you were hidden and in Darknesss you would give away your location, no longer Hidden, but would still be unseen.
Interesting interaction. I hadn't noticed the overlap with the area of light would dispel the light spell, I had usually thought of it as the center point/object from which the light was being emitted. However, light is a 40' radius and darkness is 15' so why is the distance 47.5' and not 55'?