How does searching for invisible lads work?

[Zanaki]

Like, how do I find someone if they went invis? Is there a check I can do?

Enemies will literally walk up to one of my invis units, search, fail, spin, search again, fail again, spin, search etc etc till they find them. Is this intended? Can we do this or am I missing something?

[F.O.A.M]

Originally posted by Zanaki:

Like, how do I find someone if they went invis? Is there a check I can do?

Enemies will literally walk up to one of my invis units, search, fail, spin, search again, fail again, spin, search etc etc till they find them. Is this intended? Can we do this or am I missing something?

there is a spell for it (or a potion) but you cant do what enemies do. which is dumb af. although i havent seen an enemy search more than once per turn

[LowDragMaxSag]

I want to give you a tip/spoiler Let volo do eye surgery on you and you get a nice perk for that

[Swimfan]

Originally posted by Zanaki:

Like, how do I find someone if they went invis? Is there a check I can do?

Enemies will literally walk up to one of my invis units, search, fail, spin, search again, fail again, spin, search etc etc till they find them. Is this intended? Can we do this or am I missing something?

No, it works differently in battle with your opponents.
Your best bet is to either come very close OR know almost where they are and cast an aoe. Taking damage reveals hidden enemies.

[LZXio]

So they keep rolling until they find you when you do invisibility then? Thank god I didn't waste time getting spells or potions for that and have been only doing stealth then, since its the same thing.

[Daniel_USA]

on table top you would make an active perception check at disadvantage (unless you had things like keen senses which gives you the ability to smell better) to determine the whereabouts of an invisible creature.
unless you had see invisibility or true sight or something similar.
another option would be to just attack wildly in a random square with disadvantage and hope it hits.

that's the whole point of invisibility...

[Zanaki]

Originally posted by Draka 1000:

So they keep rolling until they find you when you do invisibility then? Thank god I didn't waste time getting spells or potions for that and have been only doing stealth then, since its the same thing.

The most I've seen is 3 searches, idk if they can do more or not, but yeah it was pretty silly to watch, (though kinda funny as me and my friend were like, 'what the ♥♥♥♥ is this') but yeah...

[Zanaki]

Originally posted by Daniel_USA:

on table top you would make an active perception check at disadvantage (unless you had things like keen senses which gives you the ability to smell better) to determine the whereabouts of an invisible creature.
unless you had see invisibility or true sight or something similar.
another option would be to just attack wildly in a random square with disadvantage and hope it hits.

that's the whole point of invisibility...

True, but what about enemy creatures? Do they just roll for perception 3 times per turn till they find you or do they also have to get lucky in tabletop.