Can you target an invisible creature Pathfinder?
In Pathfinder, you cannot target a creature you cannot see, meaning that invisibility prevents you from targeting a creature with a spell or attack that requires a visible target, unless you have a means to perceive or detect them through magical means or special abilities. The rules for invisibility in Pathfinder are clear: a creature that is invisible is undetectable by vision, including darkvision, and this has significant implications for combat and exploration.
Understanding Invisibility in Pathfinder
Invisibility in Pathfinder makes a creature undetectable by vision, including darkvision. This means that a creature that is invisible cannot be seen, and therefore, cannot be targeted by attacks or spells that require a visible target.
Related FAQs
1. What breaks invisibility in Pathfinder?
The invisibility spell ends if the subject attacks any creature, but actions directed at unattended objects do not break the spell, and the definition of an attack includes any spell targeting a foe or whose area or effect includes a foe.
2. Does magic missile hit invisible creatures?
Magic Missile requires you to be able to see the target, so you cannot target an invisible creature with magic missile, even if you know the spot they occupy.
3. Does attacking while invisible give advantage?
A creature that is invisible has advantage on attacks, and invisibility granted by the invisibility spell ends when you make an attack, so the first attack while invisible grants advantage, then the spell ends.
4. How do you detect an invisible creature?
You can detect an invisible creature through magical means or special abilities, such as See Invisibility, True Seeing, or Blindsight, or by using your other senses, such as hearing or smell.
5. Can you hit an invisible creature?
Attacks against invisible creatures are at disadvantage, unless you can see them through magical means or special abilities, and opportunity attacks against an invisible creature cannot happen without magical means or ways to see without using normal vision.
6. Can you make opportunity attacks against invisible creatures?
You can make an opportunity attack only against creatures that you can see, and an invisible creature cannot be seen, so they do not trigger opportunity attacks.
7. Do invisible creatures have advantage on stealth?
Invisibility gives advantage on stealth checks, and there is nothing in the invisibility spell that restricts being detected to your footsteps or tracks, so with invisibility and boots, you have advantage on stealth checks.
8. Does detect magic work on invisible creatures?
Detect magic will not locate an invisible creature, you need to be able to see the creature or object, and there is a spell specifically designed to find invisible creatures or objects, See Invisible.
9. Does magic missile break invisibility?
Magic Missile specifically has the caveat of “target you can see”, so you cannot magic missile an invisible creature, but spells in general do not have that restriction, so you can cast spells like produce flame and electric arc versus invisible creatures, albeit with a 50% miss chance.
10. Does guiding bolt negate invisibility?
Guiding bolt allows you to target an invisible creature, and you would still have disadvantage due to the creature being invisible, but the next creature would not, since the advantage given by the spell cancels out the disadvantage of the condition.
11. Does summoning break invisibility?
Summoning does not break invisibility, you are summoning a creature, that is not an inherently hostile action, and your invisibility is likewise not broken if the summoned creature attacks a foe.
12. Can you flank an invisible creature?
You can flank an invisible creature, because even invisible, you can threaten their square, and you threaten all squares into which you can make a melee attack, even when it is not your turn.
13. Does grease break invisibility?
If you use grease on the ground, you don’t break invisibility, but if you use grease on an attended weapon, you would break invisibility, since the target got a saving throw, so it’s a direct “attack” despite it not doing damage.
14. Does spiritual weapon break invisibility?
Using Spiritual Weapon involves making an attack, so it breaks invisibility, as a bonus action on your turn, you can move the weapon up to 20 feet and repeat the attack against a creature within 5 feet of it.
15. Can invisible creatures see each other?
Invisible creatures cannot see other invisible creatures unless they have See Invisibility, True Seeing, Blindsight, or some other ability that lets them “see” invisible creatures.