Invisibility and Flanking

[Beckett]

From the 3.0 FAQ:
"You get a flanking bonus from any ally your foe can see (and
who is in the correct position to flank). If your foe can’t see
you, you don’t provide a flanking bonus to any ally.
Sharp readers will note that this means you cannot flank a
blind creature; however, truly blind creatures are effectively
flanked already (they can’t use their Dexterity bonus to AC and
you a +2 bonus to attack them). Creatures with the blindsight
ability effectively “see” within blindsight range and can be
flanked."

Thanks, I thought I remembered reading something like this, but couldn't find it in the 3.5 FAQ.

Beyond that, as I thought, the RAW are against me, but I'm not quite willing to concede the common sense point. Maybe I'll just ban Invisibility, or give all monsters Improved Uncanny Dodge...

 

[mvincent]

Exactly. Now find anything in the rules to support it, in either edition.

Skip Williams put that in the 3E FAQ. It wasn't in the 3E rules. It isn't in the 3.5 rules. And then he put in in his RotG article. But it's still nowhere in the rules.

The question is often asked, so the matter seemed open at least from a writer's intent or common sense view. The FAQ seemed intended to answer question that are frequently asked (especially if the rules don't fully cover something). Like any supplement, the FAQ can even present new rules, and often does. No one is under any requirement to use it of course (unless they are in the RPGA), but at least there is an officially published answer for those that desire one.