Many monsters are immune to piercing, bludgeoning, slashing attacks that are made from non-magical attacks.
One of my players is a ranger with a magical bow, but he fires non-magical arrows. Would those arrows now be a magical attack? Is there something in the DMG or PH (or any other manual) that would explain any answer so that I can explain it to my player?
Arrows fired from a magical weapon count as magical for purposes of overcoming dr. Unfortunately I can’t lay my hands on the reference. Hopefully someone else can help with that.
Jeremy Crawford reply was ""Do magical ranged weapon count as magical to bypass nonmagic weapon resistance and inmunity with mundane ammo?" Yes, they do!"
“It cannot be seen, cannot be felt, Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt, It lies behind stars and under hills, And empty holes it fills, It comes first and follows after, Ends life, kills laughter.” J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
From the DMG, ch7, magic item categories, weapons:
If a magic weapon has the ammunition property, ammunition fired from it is considered magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage.
Rule of fun, gameplay,a nd what looks to be general consensus would say yes.
My OCD-brain would be inclined to say "no; since there are magical (+1 etc.) flavors of ammo on offer", but that I'd say is being pedantic; since very few tables these days actually track individual ammo use.
Rule of fun, gameplay,a nd what looks to be general consensus would say yes.
My OCD-brain would be inclined to say "no; since there are magical (+1 etc.) flavors of ammo on offer", but that I'd say is being pedantic; since very few tables these days actually track individual ammo use.
Ammo and ranged weapons stack their bonuses. If you fire a +3 Arrow from a +3 Longbow, that attack would have a +6 bonus to the Attack and Damage rolls.
Many monsters are immune to piercing, bludgeoning, slashing attacks that are made from non-magical attacks.
One of my players is a ranger with a magical bow, but he fires non-magical arrows. Would those arrows now be a magical attack? Is there something in the DMG or PH (or any other manual) that would explain any answer so that I can explain it to my player?
Thanks!
Arrows fired from a magical weapon count as magical for purposes of overcoming dr. Unfortunately I can’t lay my hands on the reference. Hopefully someone else can help with that.
only references I find are to sage advice site showing a tweet from game designer Jeremy Crawford to basically the same question link --> Do magical ranged weapon bypass nonmagic weapon resistance and inmunity with mundane ammo?
Jeremy Crawford reply was ""Do magical ranged weapon count as magical to bypass nonmagic weapon resistance and inmunity with mundane ammo?" Yes, they do!"
“It cannot be seen, cannot be felt, Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt, It lies behind stars and under hills, And empty holes it fills, It comes first and follows after, Ends life, kills laughter.” J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
From the DMG, ch7, magic item categories, weapons:
Rule of fun, gameplay,a nd what looks to be general consensus would say yes.
My OCD-brain would be inclined to say "no; since there are magical (+1 etc.) flavors of ammo on offer", but that I'd say is being pedantic; since very few tables these days actually track individual ammo use.
Ammo and ranged weapons stack their bonuses. If you fire a +3 Arrow from a +3 Longbow, that attack would have a +6 bonus to the Attack and Damage rolls.
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