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Spike growth 5e5/26/2023 Now it's clearer that the magical status of the attack itself should be considered. That said, errata has updated most (all?) instances of the given resistance/immunity example in the question to the following:īludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing from Nonmagical Attacks that aren't Silvered None of the given examples are weapon attacks, so this resistance/immunity to damage from weapons does not apply to the given non-weapon examples in the question regardless of what type of damage is being done. The resistance only applies to specific damage type subcategories of weapon damage. The "weapons" portion of the example is actually sufficient to know that it does not apply against the example sources of damage, magical or not. "bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical weapons that aren't silvered" : Earth Tremor, and Ice Knife are spells found the Elemental Evil Player's Companion.įor the purposes of the resistance/immunity example in the original question: : Thorn Whip spell can be found in the Player's Handbook. I'm interested in the rule(s) for this class of spell damage, rather than the specific spells. Similar arguments can be made for other spells (such as Earth Tremor), or portions of other spells (such as the piercing damage of Ice Knife). The spell description only states piercing damage, and it's the object created by the spell that does the damage rather than the spell directly. It is being created by a spell, using a melee spell attack to hit, and the spell damage increases with level. Are spells that do only bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing damage considered magical or nonmagical damage? Most especially when considering them for purposes of resistance/immunity against "bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical weapons that aren't silvered".įor example, Thorn Whip I can see two sides:
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