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Message: <blockquote data-quote="UltimaGabe" data-source="post: 1937136" data-attributes="member: 16019">No, you seem to be confusing Flavor text with game mechanics. Most of the spells in the PHB give a short flavor text description of what it does, and then goes on to state the game mechanics. If something isn't listed as a game mechanic, then it simply doesn't do that- plain and simple. Like I said, True Seeing is NOT open-ended. No spell, with the exception of Wish or Miracle, can do anything not stated in the spell description. If an ability came out that was like Blur or Displacement, but not Blur or Displacement, it would NOT be up to the True Seeing description to decide whether or not it was bypassed- it would be up to the description of the ability itself. The True Seeing description does not give "some examples" of what it does- it states specifically what it does. As I said, it does NOT show things as they truly are, because it can't see through mundane disguises. That alone shows that the first line is purely flavor text, and therefore does not have any place in this description.As I've said several times, the spell is NOT open-ended. If the description gives specific examples of what it does, then it does not do anything beyond the description. If it said something along the lines of, "The True Seeing spell also bypasses effects not listed in this description, as up to the DM," then what you're saying would be true- but it doesn't.</blockquote>