Originally Posted by Madscientist
two questions:
- I often see the message "target is obscured by shadows" as reason for disadvantage, even for characters with darkvision (like Astarion in the underdark).
Just to be sure: The target of my attack must have light if I want to avoid a penalty.
It is not a problem if the attacker is in darkness and the target is in the light, right?
So in case of Astarion it simply means his crossbow range is bigger than his darkvision range and the target is in darkness, right?

Darkvision only goes so far, most of the races with it only go up to 12. So ya, you are correct. I broke it down above, but truthfully it would of been easier just to do a small vid and post it : /