Darkness spell and Fog Cloud questions

[DontOpenDeadInside]

Can anything see in a fog cloud and can darkvision allow you to see in the darkness created by a spell?

Also when I use fog cloud in combat for some reason I'm unable to shoot past it but NPCs can, is it because of their elevated position or just a bug?

[dolby]

wait the ai shots out of those and you can't? i didnt really test those much yet and my memory is crap.

[Pan Darius Cassandra]

They are not exactly working the way they are supposed to.

[DontOpenDeadInside]

Originally posted by dolby:

wait the ai shots out of those and you can't? i didnt really test those much yet and my memory is crap.

they can shoot trough it, I don't remember if they can shoot out of it while in it. So if I put a fog cloud between me and my enemy the ranged enemies sometimes shoots still at my characters

[guard65]

That is sadly because the did fog and darkness as surfaces. So they do not get the effect applied to them unless they are standing in it. Hopefully they will fix targeting to include surface interference if it is in the line of path.

[Indure]

Simplest answer is if you can't see your target, you can still sense it (usually via sound), which means you can still attack it, just at disadvantage. If they are also stealthed then you can't sense them either and therefore can't make an attack.

Having the condition of "blind" is different. Blind targets have:
1. Disadvantage on all their attacks
2. All attacks against them are at advantage
3. They can't make range attacks
4. They can't make opportunity attacks

How this works for fogcloud and darkness is:
1. If you are in the cloud, you can't attack out of it because you can't use range attacks.
2. If you are in the cloud, you can attack another person inside of it as normal, since advantage and disadvantage cancel each other out.
3. If you are outside the cloud and attacking an opponent inside it will be as normal since advantage and disadvantage cancel each other out.
4. If the cloud is between you and your opponent you can shoot at each other with range attacks, but with disadvantage. At least this is how it should work, I don't think BG3 treats foglocud or darkness as such, and the attacks will just act normally without disadvantage.

[Pan Darius Cassandra]

Darkness is also supposed to be able to be cast on an object.