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<blockquote data-quote="Boondoggle" data-source="post: 3305835" data-attributes="member: 47456">While you probably don't need to see your weapon to gague your reach with it when thrusting or swinging at something, I would bet you definitely would be at a significant penalty in an actual fight. When blades are clashing &amp; deflecting off each other, sheilds and armor and generally whirling about in a barely controlled manner, not seeing your weapon would make knowing the exact location of your blade significantly harder. So things like defending yourself with your weapon would be less effective.Rules wise, i would say for a bladed or hafted weapon, fighting with an invisible weapon would give you a -2 penalty to your AC, a +2 bonus to your attack and would negate half of your opponents dex bonus to AC. However, it would also be an exotic weapon.If the weapon had any part that wasn't fixed in place with relation to the rest of the weapon (flails, spiked chain, etc.), it would be unusable effectively.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Boondoggle, post: 3305835, member: 47456"] While you probably don't need to see your weapon to gague your reach with it when thrusting or swinging at something, I would bet you definitely would be at a significant penalty in an actual fight. When blades are clashing & deflecting off each other, sheilds and armor and generally whirling about in a barely controlled manner, not seeing your weapon would make knowing the exact location of your blade significantly harder. So things like defending yourself with your weapon would be less effective. Rules wise, i would say for a bladed or hafted weapon, fighting with an invisible weapon would give you a -2 penalty to your AC, a +2 bonus to your attack and would negate half of your opponents dex bonus to AC. However, it would also be an exotic weapon. If the weapon had any part that wasn't fixed in place with relation to the rest of the weapon (flails, spiked chain, etc.), it would be unusable effectively. [/QUOTE]

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