If you're invisible can you get lockpicks out of your backpack and use them?

[Steve Geddes]

How about a gem of seeing?

[Dave Justus]

Yes

[Wrong John Silver]

If you've ever rifled for something in your backpack or tried some intricate hands-on skill (maybe not miniature painting, but most others, and definitely lockpicking), you'll notice you rely more on touch to find and manipulate things than on sight. Heck, I type more on touch than sight, too.

[Fuzzy-Wuzzy]

You can do whatever you could normally do.

FAQ wrote:

Invisibility: Can you see yourself when you're invisible?

The spell doesn't say one way or the other.

Because being invisible doesn't give you penalties on actions that require you to be able to see exactly what you're doing (such as picking a lock), you can assume that you can at least see yourself well enough to perform such actions without penalty. Whether this means you can see yourself as if you were not invisible, can see yourself as a ghostly image, or some other description is up to the GM, so long as the description doesn't hinder your own actions.

[Steve Geddes]

Cheers.

[CrystalSeas]

I often close my eyes when trying to pick a lock. You don't really need to see to do that

[Steve Geddes]

Signs of a mis-spent youth? :p

I was more thinking of the process of finding them in a backpack (rather than on a belt or in your hands).

[CrystalSeas]

One year Boing Boing featured a set of lock picks disguised as long, dangly chandelier earrings.

Needless to say, someone who knew me well gifted them to me. They're somewhat flimsy, but they do work.

[Scythia]

As long as you don't use the lockpicks to attack. :P

[VampByDay]

As a general rule, the only things that break invisability are things that require attack rolls, things that require saves, or things that do automatic damage (like magic missle).

So casting grease on a person's weapon breaks it, but not casting grease on the ground currently absent of people.