Short gargoyle with the invisibility spell cast on them and they are motionless long before the PCs arrive and there's no environmental factors to draw attention to their presence? Automatically hidden, I agree with you. The PCs don't have a chance to notice the gargoyle.
That's still a ruling, and this thread was supposed to be about the rules-as-written.
As the original "You know the exact location of an invisible creature until said creature takes the Hide action and beats your passive perception" girl who started this whole mess, I stand by my assertion that that is how to handle perception and invisibility, unless the DM rules specific circumstances require a different mechanical interpretation. Nothing you've said over the past week has convinced me otherwise.
But mostly I feel bad for the OP because I doubt this whole production has been useful to them (they originally came here asking for help with something specific remember) and I'd really like it if we could all just let this conversation drop. There's nothing new being said about the invisibility rules now that wasn't being said three days ago.
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