Every magic weapon can bypass resistances and immunities to damage from nonmagical attacks, but only certain magic weapons are more accurate and damaging than their nonmagical counterparts. If an item is in the Magic Item list from the DMG, then they are considered to be a magic item.
Do Polymorphed attacks count as magical?
Usually no. A polymorphed beast has the stats of whatever it has been changed into. Unless the creature it is transformed into has some ability that makes their attacks magical, the creature’s attacks are not inherently magical.
Is Oathbow magical?
Does the Oathbow count as a magical source of damage to bypass resistance/immunity to nonmagical attacks? While it is in the Magic Items section of the DMG, it does not actually state that it is a magical weapon like they did with the Sword of Sharpness.
Does Oathbow do magical damage?
It is a magic weapon, therefor all of its damage counts as magic. Even if you’re not using the oath ability of the bow.
How does the Oathbow work?
The Oathbow, a magic weapon from the DMG, allows you to choose a target as your Sworn Enemy: When you use this weapon to make a ranged attack, you can, as a command phrase, say, “Swift death to you who have wronged me.” The target of your attack becomes your sworn enemy until it dies or until dawn seven days later.
What kind of damage does a magic weapon do?
The damage inflicted by a magic weapon is not “magic damage”. It is still physical damage of the same type that a non-magical version of the same weapon would inflict. The magic makes swords cut deeper and hammers hit harder but it does nothing to change the type of damage inflicted.
When to use damage immunity against magical attacks?
Normally, when damage immunity is meant to be qualified against whether the damage is magical or not, the statblock will expressly say so, like with this devil I pulled out of Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes: Damage Resistances cold; bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks that aren’t silvered
Can a non-magical weapon bypass a magical attack?
If it contains the phrase “from non-magical”, then magical attacks bypass. If it contains “silvered”, then a non-magical, but silvered weapon will bypass. I’m not sure if the Web your player was targeting was from the spell, but if it was, the only listed way to destroy it by fire:
Which is a magic weapon in a sentence?
Several magic staves have a sentence beginning: “This staff can be wielded as a magic quarterstaff…”. Magic quarterstaves are magical weapons. Magic staves that do not have this sentence do not qualify as magical weapons, even if you use one as a quarterstaff, any more than punching someone with a magic glove counts as a magical unarmed strike.
