For the duration, sunlight spreads from a point within range and fills a 60-foot-radius Sphere. The sunlight’s area is Bright Light and sheds Dim Light for an additional 60 feet. Alternatively, you cast the spell on an object that isn’t being worn or carried, causing the sunlight to fill a 60-foot Emanation originating from that object. Covering that object with something opaque, such as a bowl…

Level 3 Evocation (Cleric, Druid, Paladin, Ranger, Sorcerer) Casting Time: Action Range: 60 feet Components: V, S Duration: 1 hour For the duration, sunlight spreads from a point within range and fills a 60-foot-radius Sphere. The sunlight’s area is Bright Light and sheds Dim Light for an additional 60 feet. Alternatively, you cast the spell on an object that isn’t being worn or carried, causing…

Kobold warriors use hit-and-run tactics to raid their enemies and defend their homes. To avoid danger, they frequently employ haphazard traps. Kobolds Cowardly cousins to chromatic dragons, kobolds serve draconic overlords as warriors and servants. These scrappy menaces mimic the behaviors of their dragon masters. Though their small stature and recklessness make kobolds poor imitators of dragons,…

Bright Light is normal illumination. See also “Playing the Game” (“ Exploration ”).

You touch one Large or smaller object that isn’t being worn or carried by someone else. Until the spell ends, the object sheds Bright Light in a 20-foot radius and Dim Light for an additional 20 feet. The light can be colored as you like. Covering the object with something opaque blocks the light. The spell ends if you cast it again. Spell Tags: Creation, Utility Available For: Bard (Legacy),…

This encounter takes place at midday on a bright, cloudless day. The area is Brightly Lit.

Windows (see below) and broken walls allow daylight into rooms on the edges of the ziggurat, filling them with Bright Light in the daytime. The lift chambers on the second and third tiers (areas G19 and G25) are filled with Bright Light in daylight hours, while the lift chamber on the first tier (area G9) is filled with Dim Light from the shaft above.

Kindred Feat (Prerequisite: Kindred Class) The sun’s light doesn’t harm you as badly as it does other Kindred. You gain the following benefits. Dhampir’s Boon. When you take damage from sunlight, reduce the damage taken by 2. Endure Radiance. As a Bonus Action, you can expend 1 Blood Point to remove your Vulnerability to Radiant damage for 1 minute. Wake with Evening’s Freshness. When you start a…

Epic Boon Feat (Prerequisite: Level 19+) You gain the following benefits. Ability Score Increase. Increase your Constitution, Wisdom, or Charisma score by 1, to a maximum of 30. Daylight Presence. As a Bonus Action, you radiate a 30-foot Emanation of Bright Light that is sunlight. If any of the Emanation’s area overlaps with an area of Darkness created by a spell, that spell is dispelled. The…

Wondrous Item, uncommon This small sphere of thick glass weighs 1 pound. If you are within 60 feet of it, you can command it to emanate light equivalent to that of the Light or Daylight spell (your choice). Once used, the Daylight effect can’t be used again until the next dawn. You can issue another command as a Magic action to make the illuminated globe rise into the air and float no more than 5…

Weapon (Morningstar), Rare (Requires Attunement) This glowing Morningstar sheds Bright Light in a 20-foot radius and Dim Light for an additional 20 feet while you hold it. You gain a +2 bonus to attack rolls and damage rolls made with this magic weapon, which deals an extra 1d4 Radiant damage on a hit. In addition, you can cast the Daylight spell using the weapon. Once the weapon has been used to…

Shadow demons form when exceptionally wicked demons are destroyed and prevented from reconstituting their physical forms in the Abyss. This might occur due to divine intervention, when a demon is destroyed in the Abyss, or under more unusual circumstances. Shadow demons are the incorporeal remnants of these destroyed demons’ evil. They usually vaguely resemble their former shapes, but some take…

The presence or absence of light determines the category of illumination in an area, as defined below. Bright Light. Bright Light lets most creatures see normally. Even gloomy days provide Bright Light, as do torches, lanterns, fires, and other sources of illumination within a specific radius. Dim Light. Dim Light, also called shadows, creates a Lightly Obscured area. An area of Dim Light is…

Powell and her followers placed lit torches in wall sconces throughout the library. Unless otherwise described, the library is in Bright Light.

Driders combine the features of drow and giant spiders. The wicked god Lolth is fond of transforming her drow worshipers into driders, as either a blessing or a curse. These driders often become fanatical servants of their god, or they are overwhelmed by their transformation and live only to indulge their predatory arachnid instincts. Driders also appear when whole communities are transformed by…

Large Monstrosity, Chaotic Evil AC 19 Initiative +4 (14) HP 123 (13d10 + 52) Speed 30 ft., Climb 30 ft.

Every locale in Lorwyn teems with life and vivid colors. Eternal day reigns here; the sun moves across the sky from one horizon to the next, its light forever visible. Outside areas are always bathed in Bright Light.

And in the air about him were great viperine creatures, which had curiously distorted heads, and grotesquely great clawed appendages, supporting themselves with ease by the aid of black rubbery wings of singularly monstrous dimensions. —August Derleth, The Lurker at the Threshold Hunting horrors serve Nyarlathotep’s bidding across the cosmos, and even into the unknown outter realms. Cultists who…

Kragala loves setting a beat for others, whether they’re performing fast-paced music or jumping into a fight—or both. A duergar and the drummer for Shadow Malice, Kragala enjoys being on stage but doesn’t like being told what to do. She prefers to count on her spells in a fight, hanging back from melee and knocking aside blows with her heavy drumsticks.

Bright Light is normal illumination. See also chapter 1 (“ Exploration ”).

Beipiaosaurus is a small therizinosaurid from China that sheds light on the phylogenetic relationships of therizinosaurs. Design Philosophy Life is diverse. We find that the current 5.5e system of normal, proficiency, and expertise for saves/skills/attacks/etc. calculations based on one chosen stat is insufficient to express that diversity. To give us more granularity in our designs and to better…

You launch a sunbeam in a 5-foot-wide, 60-foot-long Line. Each creature in the Line makes a Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, a creature takes 6d8 Radiant damage and has the Blinded condition until the start of your next turn. On a successful save, it takes half as much damage only. Until the spell ends, you can take a Magic action to create a new Line of radiance. For the duration, a…

Wights are the withered corpses of relentless warriors whose wickedness sustains them beyond death. Unlike mere zombies, they retain the memories and evil agendas they harbored in life. After dying and returning from the grave, a wight continues its villainous ways, but it is now driven by a hunger for life. A wight drains living essence through its attacks. Humanoids slain by a wight’s…

Exterior areas are in Bright Light during the day. The cave (area B4) and ship (area B5) are in Dim Light during the day. Otherwise, interior areas are in Darkness. Descriptions assume the characters have a way to see in the dark.

The building’s windows allow Bright Light into the apartments during the day. At night, there is Dim Light if the residents are at home and awake (areas N2 and N3) and Darkness otherwise (areas N5 and N6). Interior hallways (areas N1 and N4) are lit with a few sconces that cast Dim Light in the area at all hours.

As in Eltabbar, Szass Tam’s demonic magic has created an ominous haze over Thaymount. Outdoor areas are in Dim Light in the daytime, and green lightning flashes in the sky.

Wondrous Item, artifact (requires attunement by a creature in the Empty Vault within Gauntlight's foundation) Gauntlight is much more than a 115-foot lighthouse rising from the heart of an old ruin in Fogfen—its pale stone walls extend far below the ruins, passing through eight dungeon levels and finally terminating at the tenth level far below the surface. Its foundation is centered on an…

Delerium is a magical mineral left behind by the meteor that landed in Drakkenheim. It appears in geode clusters of translucent, sharp-edged crystals which reflect octarine light. The eldritch stones softly hum in dissonant tones, and glow brightly at night or when exposed to magic. Deposits are found throughout Drakkenheim, often fused into stone streets and buildings like crystalline moss. A…

Vampire spawn are newly created vampires. They have yet to fully master their abilities, and many are consumed by their thirst for blood. Vampire spawn might serve more powerful vampires or pursue their own depraved agendas.