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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jgsugden" data-source="post: 7116332" data-attributes="member: 2629">I'm curious how DMs handle the Arcane Eye spell's ambiguities.  As some high level warlocks can cast it at will, I assume some people have had to deal with a lot of nuanced uses of the spell.  When Arcane Eye is cast, it creates an invisible, magical eye that floats around at your direction and spies on the world.  However, there is nothing in the rules that say that this eye is hidden.  Only invisible.  Hidden and invisible are different in 5E.  Invisibility makes creatures so that you can't see them without magical aid, but you can still detect the presence of them unless they are also hidden.   Does that rule extend to objects or spell effects?  <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">If so, as the eye is not hidden, does the enemy know the eye is there, but just can't see it?  Does it get to use the wizard's stealth perhaps to stay hidden? Or do all Arcane Eyes get the same default DC to be detected in your games? </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">If not, is the eye effectively hidden from even the most observant of enemies unless they have magical senses that can see invisible? </li> </ul>Also, does the eye have substance?  The spell says it creates an eye (and eyes have substance) but it is magical - so it could go either way.  It isn't a conjuration spell - so what is the eye made of?  What if the eye accidentally (or intentionally) bumps into something (perhaps an invisible something)?  Does the rule that solid barriers block it mean that it stops as soon as it makes contact and exerts no force on the thing it hits?  What if something walks into the spot the eye occupies?  Can I hang a cloak on an arcane eye?  Or will that just force the eye to the ground buried by the cloak?  The eye can't leave the plane it is cast on, but the spell says nothing about me leaving the plane I cast the spell upon - does it continue to work for me if I planeshift away to another plane?  The eye has normal and darkvision out to 30 feet - what if something is 35 feet away?  Is it completely invisible and hidden from the eye, or does the vision just get blurry after 30 feet?</blockquote>

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