In a lightly obscured area, such as dim light, patchy fog, or moderate foliage, creatures have disadvantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight. A heavily obscured area—such as Darkness, opaque fog, or dense foliage—blocks vision entirely. Darkness creates a heavily obscured area.
Can you hide in lightly obscured?
You can attempt to hide even when you are only lightly obscured by foliage, heavy rain, falling snow, mist, and other natural phenomena. The DM decides when circumstances are appropriate for hiding.
What can see through heavily obscured?
A heavily obscured area—such as darkness, opaque fog, or dense foliage—blocks vision entirely. A creature effectively suffers from the blindedcondition when trying to see something in that area. Anyone in a Fog Cloud is effectively blinded and cannot see.
Does shadow of moil give advantage?
While Greater Invisibility grants advantage by attacking unseen, Shadow of Moil grants the user the heavily obscured condition, which renders all enemies viewing the target as effectively blinded. Attacking enemies with the blinded condition imposes advantage.
Does Darkvision work in total darkness?
Yes, darkvision allows a creature or character to see in complete darkness. Darkvision explicitly states that the creature/character can see in the dark when no light is available. It should be noted, however, that darkvision can only see shades of black and white.
Does heavily obscured block light?
A heavily obscured area doesn’t blind you, but you are effectively blinded when you try to see something obscured by it. Nothing in there mentions blocking light, only that you can’t see through it.
Does shadow of moil create magical darkness?
The darkness spell specifically references magical darkness while Shadow of Moil simply says that dim light becomes dark and bright light becomes dim.
