Re: Dead Worlds & D&D 3e

In a message dated 2000-10-02 7:56:43 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
sebastianlucier@???????.com writes:

> Good point, I'd grown so accustomed to thinking of it as heat vision, I
>  forgot that that wasn't the official party line.  Did they give drow
>  ultravision in 2e?  I didn't think that vision type made it past 1e (which
>  was too bad, I thought it was neat.)

No, they had 120' infravision.

>  I'm glad 3e busted elves down to darkvision.  It had been a long
established
>  house rule in my games that elves had darkvision (ie needed a light source
>  or some kind) and not infravision (no light source necessary.)

You mean low light vision, not darkvision (which corresponds to the old
infravision).  Dwarves, half-orcs, and drow retain the ability to see in
complete darkness, while elves and half-elves can simply make do
with less light than humans can.