The Twilight Cleric's bread and butter: "As an action, you present your holy symbol, and a sphere of twilight emanates from you. The sphere is centered on you, has a 30-foot radius, and is filled with dim light."
The Shadow Blade spell as cast by Warlocks (and likely others): 'You weave together threads of shadow to create a sword of solidified gloom in your hand. This magic sword lasts until the spell ends. It counts as a simple melee weapon with which you are proficient. It deals 2d8 psychic damage on a hit and has the finesse, light, and thrown properties (range 20/60). In addition, when you use the sword to attack a target that is in dim light or darkness, you make the attack roll with advantage.'
This being the case, do these things synergize? I may be running a Twilight Cleric in the near future and since I'm joining an existing game, I'll be starting at level 8. I was thinking of multiclassing far enough into Warlock to get Shadow Blade since I'll be in 'dim light' for most battles anyway.
The Twilight Cleric's bread and butter: "As an action, you present your holy symbol, and a sphere of twilight emanates from you. The sphere is centered on you, has a 30-foot radius, and is filled with dim light."
The Shadow Blade spell as cast by Warlocks (and likely others): 'You weave together threads of shadow to create a sword of solidified gloom in your hand. This magic sword lasts until the spell ends. It counts as a simple melee weapon with which you are proficient. It deals 2d8 psychic damage on a hit and has the finesse, light, and thrown properties (range 20/60). In addition, when you use the sword to attack a target that is in dim light or darkness, you make the attack roll with advantage.'
This being the case, do these things synergize? I may be running a Twilight Cleric in the near future and since I'm joining an existing game, I'll be starting at level 8. I was thinking of multiclassing far enough into Warlock to get Shadow Blade since I'll be in 'dim light' for most battles anyway.
Thanks in advance.
Oooh, I love this thematically too. I mean, the difference between "twilight" and "the gibbering void between the stars" is really just one of perspective
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Askatu, hyperfocused vedalken freedom fighter in Wildspace (Zealot barb/Swashbuckler rogue/Battle Master fighter) Green Hill Sunrise, jaded tabaxi mercenary trapped in the Dark Domains (Battle Master fighter) Xhekhetiel, halfling survivor of a Betrayer Gods cult (Runechild sorcerer/fighter)
The Twilight Cleric's bread and butter: "As an action, you present your holy symbol, and a sphere of twilight emanates from you. The sphere is centered on you, has a 30-foot radius, and is filled with dim light."
The Shadow Blade spell as cast by Warlocks (and likely others): 'You weave together threads of shadow to create a sword of solidified gloom in your hand. This magic sword lasts until the spell ends. It counts as a simple melee weapon with which you are proficient. It deals 2d8 psychic damage on a hit and has the finesse, light, and thrown properties (range 20/60). In addition, when you use the sword to attack a target that is in dim light or darkness, you make the attack roll with advantage.'
This being the case, do these things synergize? I may be running a Twilight Cleric in the near future and since I'm joining an existing game, I'll be starting at level 8. I was thinking of multiclassing far enough into Warlock to get Shadow Blade since I'll be in 'dim light' for most battles anyway.
Thanks in advance.
You will almost never be in dim light (and it won't matter that you aren't); remember:
Channel Divinity is a finite resource per Short Rest and you can't pop it once you're out.
Bright light will illuminate dim light, so you will need your party to keep their light sources away from you.
Dim light is incredibly rare and usually happens because you're relatively far away from a light source. Much more often you'll just be in darkness. You'll have 300' darkvision, so there won't be any point to the Channel Divinity, you can just use Shadow Blade and have the darkness trigger it.
May not necessarily be worth the loss of level progression for yourself, but the party Arcane Trickster Rogue of level 7 or higher is going to LOVE you. Especially if your DM rules that the dim-light aura overrides any (normal) bright light sources.
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Depends on the DM. There aren't a lot of effects that use the "filled with [light level]" wording, and the ones that do make sense thematically to ignore brighter light. Because 5e wording is dumb, it is unclear if this is RAW.
I say to ignore brighter light for "filled with [X light]" effects. It is more fun that way.
I'll suffice it to say that there has been a considerable and vigorous debate on these forums as to whether Twilight Sanctuary lowers bright light within its area of effect, and proponents on both sides have expressed opinions in detail.
The Twilight Cleric's bread and butter: "As an action, you present your holy symbol, and a sphere of twilight emanates from you. The sphere is centered on you, has a 30-foot radius, and is filled with dim light."
The Shadow Blade spell as cast by Warlocks (and likely others): 'You weave together threads of shadow to create a sword of solidified gloom in your hand. This magic sword lasts until the spell ends. It counts as a simple melee weapon with which you are proficient. It deals 2d8 psychic damage on a hit and has the finesse, light, and thrown properties (range 20/60). In addition, when you use the sword to attack a target that is in dim light or darkness, you make the attack roll with advantage.'
This being the case, do these things synergize? I may be running a Twilight Cleric in the near future and since I'm joining an existing game, I'll be starting at level 8. I was thinking of multiclassing far enough into Warlock to get Shadow Blade since I'll be in 'dim light' for most battles anyway.
Thanks in advance.
I don't see why not.
"Not all those who wander are lost"
Oooh, I love this thematically too. I mean, the difference between "twilight" and "the gibbering void between the stars" is really just one of perspective
Active characters:
Askatu, hyperfocused vedalken freedom fighter in Wildspace (Zealot barb/Swashbuckler rogue/Battle Master fighter)
Green Hill Sunrise, jaded tabaxi mercenary trapped in the Dark Domains (Battle Master fighter)
Xhekhetiel, halfling survivor of a Betrayer Gods cult (Runechild sorcerer/fighter)
You will almost never be in dim light (and it won't matter that you aren't); remember:
May not necessarily be worth the loss of level progression for yourself, but the party Arcane Trickster Rogue of level 7 or higher is going to LOVE you. Especially if your DM rules that the dim-light aura overrides any (normal) bright light sources.
Helpful rewriter of Japanese->English translation and delver into software codebases (she/e/they)
Depends on the DM. There aren't a lot of effects that use the "filled with [light level]" wording, and the ones that do make sense thematically to ignore brighter light. Because 5e wording is dumb, it is unclear if this is RAW.
I say to ignore brighter light for "filled with [X light]" effects. It is more fun that way.
I'll suffice it to say that there has been a considerable and vigorous debate on these forums as to whether Twilight Sanctuary lowers bright light within its area of effect, and proponents on both sides have expressed opinions in detail.
"Not all those who wander are lost"
It synergise well togheter as Twilight Sanctuary create dim light despite ambiant lighting according to Dev