After reviewing the rules and the sage advice compendium for 2024 I was pretty sure the ruling was set in stone. Wildshape can work in anti magic based off the rules presented. Sadly I became more confused when I scrolled down further and Druids wildshape was used as an example in one of the questions as a magical effect. Now the answer to the question didn’t mention anything about the Druids wildshape being magical so I am wondering if the question was copy pasted by the team when making the compendium. What do you think?
The weird thing about this is that the 5e version of Wild Shape explicitly used the word "magical" to describe what it did, meaning that it would count as a magical effect under the 5.5e definition. All mentions of that word were removed in the 5.5e version of Wild Shape, which argues that it was an intentional change and not just an accident of wording. But I would agree that the Sage Advice thing does seem to just be copied and pasted from the 5e Sage Advice.
Conceptually, it seems (to me) incredibly obvious that it should count as a magical effect., and I'd probably rule it that way in practice even if that's not strictly correct according to the rules as written.
Ya it seems like it was definitely intentional, and I can see where you are coming from with the ruling but I also think that it almost be like a dragons breathe attack or something like that! Thank you for your input!
After reviewing the rules and the sage advice compendium for 2024 I was pretty sure the ruling was set in stone. Wildshape can work in anti magic based off the rules presented. Sadly I became more confused when I scrolled down further and Druids wildshape was used as an example in one of the questions as a magical effect. Now the answer to the question didn’t mention anything about the Druids wildshape being magical so I am wondering if the question was copy pasted by the team when making the compendium. What do you think?
The weird thing about this is that the 5e version of Wild Shape explicitly used the word "magical" to describe what it did, meaning that it would count as a magical effect under the 5.5e definition. All mentions of that word were removed in the 5.5e version of Wild Shape, which argues that it was an intentional change and not just an accident of wording. But I would agree that the Sage Advice thing does seem to just be copied and pasted from the 5e Sage Advice.
Conceptually, it seems (to me) incredibly obvious that it should count as a magical effect., and I'd probably rule it that way in practice even if that's not strictly correct according to the rules as written.
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Ya it seems like it was definitely intentional, and I can see where you are coming from with the ruling but I also think that it almost be like a dragons breathe attack or something like that! Thank you for your input!