Cloud of Daggers outright states its 4d4 slashing damage in the spell’s effects, and these effects last for its duration; it is thus, logically, magical damage, as it is damage directly caused by magic.
How much damage does cloud of Daggers do?
Here is the description from the PHB. “You fill the air with spinning daggers in a cube 5 feet on each side, centered on a point you choose within range. A creature takes 4d4 slashing damage when it enters the spell’s area for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there.”
What kind of damage does the cloud of daggers do?
As indirect and thus theoretically non-magical harm caused by a spell, consider a bite attack made by a summoned wolf or a forest fire ignited by a fireball spell. Whether the cloud of daggers is damaged magically is up to the DM. Regarding that it’s one of the few violent spells of the bard, one would consider leniency.
How big is the cloud of daggers 5e?
Introduction to the Cloud of Daggers 5e The cloud of daggers created a cloud of small, flying daggers of force in a region of about five feet in diameter, inside fifty feet of the caster, after casting the wizards. The dangerous thing of venturing into a cloud of daggers is twice folded when a wizard has risen to exceptional power.
Can a mace be used as a magical weapon?
The mace does not deal “magical damage”; the +1 bonus to damage from the magic weapon is a bonus to whatever damage the mace would ordinarily deal, which is bludgeoning. However, any damage dealt by the mace will bypass the defenses some monsters have against ordinary weapons. All weapons with magical enchantments are magical weapons.
Is there such a thing as magical damage?
There is no such thing as “magical damage”. The list of damage types includes “radiant”, “necrotic”, “bludgeoning”,”fire”, and so on. The +1 Mace does Bludgeoning damage, but it is a magic item and therefore does so as a magical attack. Hence it bypasses the resistance to “bludgeoning damage from non-magical attacks”.
