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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MightyZehir" data-source="post: 6392533" data-attributes="member: 94059"><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Open Sans'">  <span style="font-family: 'arial'">Since supernatural abilities are not in 5E, how do you guys handle those monsters abilities in anti-magic field?</span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'arial'"><span style="color: #000000">  From what I have seen in the monster manual, many abilities have words like 'innate spellcasting','magic' 'magical', ' magically', 'spell attack' in their abilities' description.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'arial'"><span style="color: #000000">  I would rule that anti-magic field protects you from them.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'arial'"><span style="color: #000000">  There are a few oddities such as medusa's gaze which doesn't contain the these keywords while creatures with similar abilities such as basilisk and cockatrice do.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'arial'"><span style="color: #000000">  I would also rule them to be affected by anti-magic field.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'arial'"><span style="color: #000000">  Then we come to abilities with no keywords and don't have creatures of similar abilities with the keywords.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'arial'"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'arial'"><span style="color: #000000">These include breath weapons( dragons, behirs, mephits) , infernal wound( devils), frightful presence and life drain.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'arial'"><span style="color: #000000">  I would rule that anti-magic field have no effect against them.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'arial'"><span style="color: #000000"> Now , how would you guys handle these abilities against anti-magic field? Like how they are in previous edition?</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>

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