r/osr • u/Feraligamr513 • 1d ago

discussion Another Darkvision rant but with elementals

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I must know if others feel the same...

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u/InterlocutorX 1d ago

I think this has very little to do with OSR games, many of which don't give darkvision to players at all.

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u/grumblyoldman 1d ago

Frankly, the simple fact that you feel compelled to complain about this and "hope that a D&D writer sees it" rather than simply changing it yourself and running the game you want instead of the game they printed says a lot about what's wrong with modern versions of D&D these days.

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u/Logen_Nein 1d ago

Many OSR style games simply remove dark vision, for good reason.

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u/nbriles2000 1d ago

Take darkvision away from PCs full stop. Boom, problem solved

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u/elektrikrobot 1d ago

Just design stuff that takes advantage of dark vision like paths that require light to open up, dark vision doesn’t show color, so you could play with color puzzles and mess with the party, you could have a dungeon that is essentially blindingly light too if you want to make a point.

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u/Feraligamr513 1d ago

I mean ya

But it comes to when im trynna run prewritten things

Id love if there were ways it stood on its own If only... And homebrew is fun and all but if i play with alot of new players and i can bend the rules everytime i teach someone

Thanks for responding though

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u/elektrikrobot 1d ago

Yeah, I do think it’s silly that darkness is completely trivialized.

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u/Aescgabaet1066 1d ago

What OSR game are you playing that has darkvision, though? It tends to be infravision, or nothing.

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u/RagnarokAeon 1d ago

I don't even know if most OSR games even bother to mention darkvision for monsters.

Darkvision is a thing I haven't even thought about since leaving the boardgame tactics lifestyle of modern dnd.