Are Primal Companion attacks considered magical in 2024 Rules?
I've searched this forum and other sources for an answer to this question, but I have not yet found a definitive answer. My partner and I are co-DMing a campaign where we want to stay true to RAW using 2024 rules as closely as possible. (One of the goals of the campaign is to familiarize ourselves with the 2024 rules.) I'm hoping someone can cite rules to guide our ruling. Thanks in advance.
Primal Companion Attacks are not inherently Magical.
There appears to be a deprecation of "Resistance to Nonmagical Bludgeoning, Slashing, and Piercing" damage on monsters in the 2024 statblocks. As a result, the design choice seems to have been to change "Attacks count as Magical Attacks" features to "Attack has the option to do Force Damage," as was done when changing the Monk's 6th-level feature "Ki-Empowered Strikes" to "Empowered Strikes."
Beastmaster Primal Companions get to use Force Damage at Level 7.
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Are Primal Companion attacks considered magical in 2024 Rules?
I've searched this forum and other sources for an answer to this question, but I have not yet found a definitive answer. My partner and I are co-DMing a campaign where we want to stay true to RAW using 2024 rules as closely as possible. (One of the goals of the campaign is to familiarize ourselves with the 2024 rules.) I'm hoping someone can cite rules to guide our ruling. Thanks in advance.
Primal Companion Attacks are not inherently Magical.
There appears to be a deprecation of "Resistance to Nonmagical Bludgeoning, Slashing, and Piercing" damage on monsters in the 2024 statblocks. As a result, the design choice seems to have been to change "Attacks count as Magical Attacks" features to "Attack has the option to do Force Damage," as was done when changing the Monk's 6th-level feature "Ki-Empowered Strikes" to "Empowered Strikes."
Beastmaster Primal Companions get to use Force Damage at Level 7.
🎵I'm on top of the world, looking down on creation, wreaking death and devastation with my mind.
As the power that I've found erupts freely from the ground, I will cackle from the top of the world.🎵
Charisma Saving Throw: DC 18, Failure: 20d6 Psychic Damage, Success: Half damage