I'm still struggling with the dungeons in this game being well lit pretty much everywhere. I have started working on the Dank Crypt for the table top campaign, and it just doesn't make any sense to have sunlight streaming into this lower level. The mercenaries you have been at this Crypt for days looking for a way to get into the lower level. What? They can't climb? They got no grappling hooks or ropes to scale down to one of the larger cracks in the ceiling that is allowing the sunlight in? They even went through all the trouble of putting together that large crane with the heavy Stone dangling by a rope in order to punch through the stone floor. Don't you think they have exhausted everything else first?
The Dank Crypt should be pitch Black, requiring torches and dark vision to see where you're going. If you don't use torches, your characters who don't have dark vision should be totally blind. When you reach the main part of the crypt, you should have to light all the candles in there torches in the area to really get a good view of the statue in plaque and so forth.
The same is true for the underdark. It's still bugs me to no end that there is so much beaming light shining in the underdark. I can understand some strange glowing plants here and there, but the massive beams of sunlight are just so out of place.
The necromancer's lair is another one. No one has been in there presumably for over 120 years. However, there is tons of sunlight beaming down from above. Why? That place would be so much scarier if it was dark and you were exploring it with only torches.
Places I can totally understand having light are the upper level of the Dank Crypt where you fight The mercenaries, the owl bear cave, the defiled Temple, And maybe even some portions of the whispering depths.
But whatever. I know they're probably not going to change it, but I thought I'd at least bring it up again since I'm thinking about it and how weird it is that the crypt is supposedly so sealed off and yet there are so many huge gaping holes of sunlight coming through.
