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I understand people's concerns about FoW and acknowledge that at times the ability can be quite potent. However, I believe that all skills and abilities and spells can be quite potent in particular situations.

The current description and implementation of FoW (and other Feats) will remain for the time being. Remember that Feats are generally single "charge" abilities; they can be used once or twice a day and that's all. Whereas, most spell effects can be invoked multiple times.

I will clarify FoW and Invisibility as per the rules description:

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--use a Feat of Will to disbelieve an illusion or illusory effect. If the player thinks he or she is being affected by an illusion, he or she may call "FEAT OF WILL" to attempt to see through the illusion. A Feat of Will may be used to perceive a creature under the effects of Invisibility. If the character does see through an illusion, only the character that exerted the Feat of Will perceives the deception; all other creatures continue to perceive the illusion is real.

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A FoW can only be used IF the player BELIEVES they are being affected by an illusion (including Invisibility). Therefore, as people have stated, if there is no reason to believe an invisible person is around, then there is no reason to expend a FoW. It's difficult to avoid metagaming when you see someone scarfed or cloaked, but they must do something to trigger a "hey, what was that?" moment.

Overall, magic does not necessarily get more "powerful" as a caster increases in level. Some spells do gain in strength and influence. But most spells gain in usefulness and area of effect. Therefore, I understand being frustrated by having Sleep and invoking it at a target that can resist. But, a second invocation would probably work OR a Greater or Mass Sleep would solve the problem.

Remember, at events with only 15 or fewer people, NPCs need to in a way "represent" seven or eight monsters in only three or four bodies. There is a dilation of special effect at work. If the party were 15 strong and the NPCs were 10 strong, each individual monster would have fewer hit points, fewer overall abilities, and so on.

I would also like to hearken some of the veterans back to the day before any of the Feats were installed and this same conversation was made only in reverse. "Why can't I resist a sleep spell? It's so incapacitating" "Invisibility is way too powerful." "I can't break a shield with my great sword or pole arm?" And so on and so on.

I encourage players not to look for 1-to-1 fixes or 1-to-1 antidotes for any particular spell or effect. Much of becoming an experienced and effective player is using your skills holistically. Granted a level 1 Occuso member can become invisible; but that invisibility is only one charge, for 10 minutes, and he/she risks being found out. No one, as far as I know, has called Celcian on his Organizational ties. I believe most have no complaints when he uses the cloak to help the party, but hate it when he uses it against the party. Let's continue to remember that the reason we play is for the breadth and depth of the game world.