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Re: the last line of the spell: does it nullify the WHOLE darkness spell or just the region the daylight touches?

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Re: the last line of the spell: does it nullify the WHOLE darkness spell or just the region the daylight touches?

 "the spell that created the darkness is dispelled."

To me, that's the whole area.

Would light cast by Daylight be damaging to vampires in Barovia? The spell description never specifies that it's actual daylight that's being created, but I can imagine the spell name implies that it would damage vampires. 

Dm's call but I would allow it

Thanks for the insight! I'm actually DM'ing CoS and one of my players asked... I think I'll allow it, especially since they don't have any Clerics or Paladins right now! 

Interestingly, the light shed by daylight doesn't count as "sunlight" for the purposes of Sunlight Sensitivity (eg drow) or Sunlight Hypersensitivity (eg vampire). 

This has been clarified by D&D 5e's designers over multiple tweets. Here's some for you:

• Chris Perkins saying so: https://www.sageadvice.eu/2016/11/23/can-you-tell-me-if-the-spell-daylight-is-considered-sunlight-versus-vampires/
• Jeremy Crawford saying so: https://www.sageadvice.eu/2016/03/02/does-the-spell-daylight-create-sunlight-against-vampires-drow/
• Jeremy Crawford (again) and Mike Mearls saying so: https://www.sageadvice.eu/2016/04/01/is-the-daylight-spell-no-longer-sun-light/

Whenever I'm curious about how to rule on something like this (and I'm not mid-session), I'll usually just do a quick Google search of "sage advice daylight spell" or similar to see if the designers have made any clarifying tweets. Jeremy Crawford usually has the more strictly correct rulings, even if the ruling is a bit annoying, while Mike Mearls often has a looser, more fun-focused interpretation of the rules. Both are valid, and it's interesting to see where their rulings diverge from one another. 

Wow, thanks for that font of information! I had tried Googling but that lead to a lot of different topics from a lot of different sources, and I didn't know which one to go for. Now that you've clarified that for me... I'm good to go! Thanks again! 

Would this spell help with the growing, maintaining and cultivating of plants in let's say an underground society or something?

I would initially say no but when considering real life lamps that help grow indoors I would say yes

My lvl 1 friend said he had this spell. He wasn’t even a spell caster!!!

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My lvl 1 friend said he had this spell. He wasn’t even a spell caster!!!

 He most likely had a magic item, for instance a Driftglobe

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Re: the last line of the spell: does it nullify the WHOLE darkness spell or just the region the daylight touches?

 Km

This is exactly the problem of this spell - it is not considered sunlight, for that you need the 5th level spell „Dawn“. It kinda even sounds like a spiteful comment in that spell’s description „This light is sunlight.“ ... and Daylight is not.

Daylight is basically a 60 foot sphere of what light looks like midday on a sunny day, it isn’t actually sunlight, just a stronger version of the light cantrip basically

SPOILER FOR OUT OF THE ABYSS:

The last encounter with the Drow, before you escape the Underdark halfway through, is supposed to be a super tough fight, but when our Cleric used this spell, the battle became really trivial, because all the Drow were ****ed by Daylight Sensitivity xD

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SPOILER FOR OUT OF THE ABYSS:

 

 

The last encounter with the Drow, before you escape the Underdark halfway through, is supposed to be a super tough fight, but when our Cleric used this spell, the battle became really trivial, because all the Drow were ****ed by Daylight Sensitivity xD

 This spell doesn't create sunlight though, so it would do nothing to Drow.

lol it shouldn't have

oops...

Ok, lets be honest here, the name is really misleading... 

Yeah, it should have been called Bright Light or something.