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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Crimson Binome" data-source="post: 6816707" data-attributes="member: 6775031">It's an improvised weapon. It does improvised weapon damage.If a non-magical whip can kill someone, then it should surely be possible for an old lady to beat you down with her purse.The problem comes with weapons that don't have a bonus to attack or damage. In every previous edition, the reason why something required a +1 sword to hit was because the +1 represented how it was magically sharper and more damaging than a non-magical weapon. Your weapon must be +X more powerful than a regular weapon in order to hurt this enemy.In 5E, that's no longer the case. You can have a sword that isn't sharper or more damaging than a regular non-magical sword (like a Flametongue or a Frostbrand), and it will still hurt an iron golem that is otherwise entirely immune to non-magical sources of physical damage. It doesn't matter that its specific enchantment is unrelated to its sharpness or damage capacity; it's just that it has magic on it at all that somehow allows it to hurt an iron golem. Not that drinking a potion would make you inherently magical, the same way that enchanting a suit of armor would make the armor magical. (Although I could imagine a DM ruling otherwise.)</blockquote>