[RPG] Can you see yourself when Invisible

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If you are invisible can you see yourself and things you are holding? For example can you use a scroll whilst invisible assuming you can't see invisible yourself?

Best Answer

No.

The invisibility spell's description states:

The creature or object touched becomes invisible, vanishing from sight, even from darkvision.

No part of the spell's description makes an exception for the subject of the spell's sight. On the contrary, the spell's description goes out of its way to clarify that the caster can't see creatures that they make invisible using the spell unless they have the ability to see invisible stuff. (The spell does contain the line "If you cast the spell on someone else, neither you nor your allies can see the subject," but that doesn't automatically mean that if you don't cast the spell on someone else, you can see the subject.) The spell doesn't even allow a saving throw to disbelieve the illusion.

Moreover, the invisibility spell is part of the glamer subschool - and unlike some other subschools of illusion, glamers aren't mind-affecting, don't only affect certain creatures, and explicitly change the sensory qualities of the things they affect.

Nearly every effect in the game that renders something invisible references the invisibility spell, meaning that all other sources of invisibility are subject to this same limitation. (As kindly pointed out by Peregrin Took, one known exception is invisibility sphere, which explicitly states that those affected by the spell can see each other and themselves - a line conspicuously absent from invisibility.)