Does light cancel magical darkness?

Light effects overcome non-magical darkness in the area, and can counteract magical darkness. You must usually target darkness magic with your light magic directly to counteract the darkness, but some light spells automatically attempt to counteract darkness.
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Does daylight get rid of magical darkness?

It's actually much shorter than people think even when playing Tabletop. Daylight doesn't dispel magical Darkness. The tooltip means it dispels mundane darkness.
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Can light cantrip cancel darkness?

The light cantrip etc is not strong enough for that. Regarding darkness: If you cast it on something in the area or affected by the Darkness spell, it should remove it so long as the Daylight is a higher level than the Darkness.
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How does light interact with darkness?

Darkness is the absence of light. So if you “combine” light with a dark area, you no longer have darkness.
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How do you deal with magical darkness?

Effectively, Magical darkness works just like regular darkness, except normal darkvision and sources of light can't illuminate it, so you're effectively blind to whatever is inside it(or outside it if you're in it). Strong enough Light spells like Daylight can banish it away.
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Darkness, Light, and Vision: Dungeons and Dragons 5e Rules Explained

What can light up magical darkness?

All light sources from magical spells and effects can illuminate a Darkness spell and that includes light from items such as Flame Tongue (RAW).
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Can you see out of magical darkness?

magical darkness is a heavily obscured area that blocks vision entirely. - No. You can't see a creature on the other side of an area of magical darkness. - If you are in an area of magical darkness you can not see out of it.
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Does light and darkness coexist?

This is not theoretically possible. The reason being is that darkness is not a "thing" in the same way light is. Since darkness is connotatively defined as a lack of visible light, one can set a theoretical maximum to the level of darkness. A place where there is absolutely no light is at the maximum level of dark.
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Can light spell illuminate magical darkness?

The spell's text implies that while nonmagical light cannot illuminate the magical darkness, magical light powerful enough not to immediately fizzle out can and will at least partially illuminate the darkened area.
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Why is light more powerful than darkness?

Light is considered more powerful because in order to have “Light" some source of power and/or energy is required. Where as the dark, is the absence of power and/or energy.
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How do you remove magical darkness in D&D?

If you want a way to dispel Darkness, here's a couple:
  1. Dispel Magic.
  2. Daylight ("If any of this spell's area overlaps with an area of darkness created by a spell of 3rd level or lower, the spell that created the darkness is dispelled.")
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Does Dawn dispel magical darkness?

Looking at the Light Cleric's Radiance of the Dawn CD ability, it says that it dispels magical Darkness with 30'. Darkness, the spell, covers a 15' radius from a point the caster chooses within 60'.
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Does light always defeat darkness?

The world is a dark place, but the good news of scripture is that darkness cannot overcome light. And while our experience tells us that evil is alive and well, the hope and promise of Jesus is that His light will not fail or be overcome.
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What can defeat darkness?

The Surest Way to Defeat Darkness is By Radiating Light.
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Can gloomstalkers see in magical darkness?

Darkvision is essential for many environments, and it lets races who already have it see even further. More significantly, it makes the Gloom Stalker ranger invisible to foes who rely on darkvision to see it. This is resource-free invisibility that isn't broken by attacks.
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Can dancing lights dispel darkness?

If any of Darkness 's area overlaps with the area of light created by a Dancing Lights spell, it would dispel it because it's a cantrip and thus 2nd level or lower. It should not be dispelled if overlapping with any other maical darkness though.
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What is the permanent darkness spell in D&D?

This spell creates a permanent sphere of magical darkness. If this spell is cast onto a creature, the creature is entitled to a saving throw. If this saving throw is successful, the spell is assumed to be centered on the area (i.e., the location), not on the creature.
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What is the line between light and dark called?

Description. The line that separates day and night is called the terminator. It is also referred to as the "grey line" and the "twilight zone." It is a fuzzy line due to our atmosphere bending sunlight. In fact, the atmosphere bends sunlight by half a degree, which is about 37 miles (60 km).
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Is darkness just the absence of light?

The perception of darkness differs from the mere absence of light due to the effects of after images on perception. In perceiving, the eye is active, and the part of the retina that is unstimulated produces a complementary afterimage.
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What does God say about darkness and light?

2 Corinthians 4:6 NIV

6 For God, who said, "Let light shine out of darkness," made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God's glory displayed in the face of Christ.
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What breaks magical darkness?

Light effects overcome non-magical darkness in the area, and can counteract magical darkness. You must usually target darkness magic with your light magic directly to counteract the darkness, but some light spells automatically attempt to counteract darkness.
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Can blind fighting see through magical darkness?

"Blind Fighting. You have blindsight with a range of 10 feet. Within that range, you can effectively see anything that isn't behind total cover, even if you're blinded or in darkness.
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Can blindsight see in magical darkness?

If you are in an area of magical darkness, and you have limited range blindsight, you will be able to perceive normally within that radius, as per the definition of blindsight: A monster with blindsight can perceive its surroundings without relying on sight, within a specific radius.
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What is more powerful than darkness?

But there is also light, and light will always be stronger than darkness. We are light.
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