Darkvision

Category: Baldur’s Gate Spells

Level 2 Transmutation spell available to Druids, Rangers, Sorcerers, and Wizards. Touch a creature and it can see in the dark out to 12m until a Long Rest. It is a utility spell for a problem the game mostly solves for you by handing out Darkvision to half the playable races.

Spell description: Grant a creature the ability to see in the dark out to a range of 12m.

Spell properties

Range: Melee: 1.5m (5ft)
Duration: Long Rest
Conditions applied: Can see in the dark out to a range of 12m.
Cost: Action + Spell Slot
Recharge: Per action

Spell upcasting

Casting Darkvision at higher levels provides no additional benefits.

How to obtain Darkvision

Druid, Sorcerer, Wizard at Class level 3
Ranger at Class level 5

Source items: Sunwalker’s Gift, Scroll of Darkvision, Elixir

Grant a creature the ability to see in the dark out to a range of 12m.

Range: Melee (1.5m)

Duration: Long Rest

Duration: Until Long Rest

Condition: Darkvision

The creature can see in the dark out to 12m.
Does not allow sight through magical darkness.

When to cast Darkvision

If you have a Human, a Halfling, or a Dragonborn in the party, they cannot see in the dark, and darkness in this game means Disadvantage on attacks and a walk into every trap you failed to spot. Darkvision fixes that for one slot per character per day.

The places it matters are the Underdark and the Shadow-Cursed Lands, where the light is bad for hours at a time. Cast it on the one party member who needs it before you go in and stop thinking about it.

It does nothing against magical Darkness, the spell, which is a different thing entirely. And a torch in the off-hand does most of the same job for free, so this is a spell of last resort rather than a daily ritual.

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Spell properties

Level

Level 2

School

Transmutation

Casting resource

Action + Spell Slot

Damage type

Range

Melee

Duration

Long Rest

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