D&D 5E Darkvision + Skulker = Blind sight?

[Hatox]

Hello everybody,

I'm running a D&D 5th campaign and my players are soon hitting lvl 4. Now I have a player (Wood Elf/Ranger/Beastmaster) whos interested in the feat "Skulker".
When we read over it I brought up that the 3rd bonus "Dim light doesn't impose disadvantage on your wisdom(perception) checks relying on sight" could actually mean that with the elfs darkvision ("You can see [...] in darkness as if it were dim light.") you have no disadvantage in complete (natural) darkness(at least in a 60 feet range).
What do you think, would this be to strong or just a cool combination?

Happy to read your opinions on this

 

[bganon]

My first reaction is that treating darkness as dim light doesn't actually make it dim light, so the 3rd Skulker bonus doesn't apply. But on further thought, since 1) otherwise that bonus does nothing, and 2) the gain (normal Wis checks) is not a big deal, I think I'd probably allow it. Feats are supposed to be good.

 

[DEFCON 1]

Yes, I treat that combination as saying the elf can see out to 60' in complete darkness and not have Disadvantage on his Perception checks. If the player wants to spend a precious ASI/feat slot on this, then I give it to them.

Since there's no "blindsight" feature for PCs in the game, I treat this as that method for "getting" it. (But note... true blindness is still blindness, this combo doesn't help with that.)

 

[ThePolarBear]

By the way, this still does not allow the player to "see" in dim light as if it was bright light. It just removes the penality on perception checks. Other limitations still apply. He is just trained to spot things better and used to look at things while there's little light, understanding what is going on. He still would not be able to read a book.

 

[Yunru]

By the way, this still does not allow the player to "see" in dim light as if it was bright light.

Darkvision, however, does.

 

[ThePolarBear]

Darkvision, however, does.

Nope. Darkvision by itself does not. Specific istances of Darkvision (like the racials) do, however. And even then, we were talking about the "dim light" Darkvision provides when already in complete darkness, so...

Edit: Darkvision changed officially, first part not true anymore