Miss chance and knowledge of an attack


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A bit of confusion about miss chances:

If a character has an effect that creates a miss chance such as blur and is attacked by someone with greater or natural invisibility but the miss chance prevents this do they have any idea that an attack was attempted ?

Silver Crusade

They would probably feel the wind from the attack


I would probably have the blurred character roll perception vs the invisible character's stealth. Attacking would give a penalty to stealth, though the method of attack might determine what that penalty sould be (for example: missing with a firearm would probably be more noticable than missing with a silent "Touch of Fatigue" spell).


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Attacking breaks Stealth regardless of whether the attack was successful, so whether the attacker was being Stealthy should be irrelevant. Noticing the creature itself boils down to the Perception check described here. Noticing that the creature attacked is not specifically covered, so there's gonna be some GM discretion involved, and that might vary according to circumstances.

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