Magical Beasts and DR/Magic

[Endur]

Do natural attacks from a Magical Beast qualify for penetrating DR/magic?

I'm assuming the Magical Beast does not have DR/Magic itself.

 

[Ogrork the Mighty]

I don't think so. I think it must be explicitly stated that attacks from the creature count as being magical (or otherwise special). If all Magical Beasts' attacks were considered magical, it would state that under the Magical Beasts description in the MM.

 

[Infiniti2000]

Do natural attacks from a Magical Beast qualify for penetrating DR/magic?

I'm assuming the Magical Beast does not have DR/Magic itself.

No. But, I always thought that would've been a great rule to put in there, for flavor if not for anything else.

 

[Grazzt]

Do natural attacks from a Magical Beast qualify for penetrating DR/magic?

Nope. See Ogrork the Mighty's post above.

 

[jigokusabre]

Right, "magical beast" is simply a way to describe animals that have supernatural or spell like abilities (celestial animals), are more intelligent than your run of the mill animal (wizards familiars), or have a bizzare appearence or mannarisms (sphynxes and gryffons).

No creature, by virtue of its type, has magical attacks. Every creature whose weapons are "treated as (magical, lawful, epic, whatever) for the purposes of damage reduction" will have that listed in their attack entry in the MM.

 

[Diirk]

Right, "magical beast" is simply a way to describe animals that have supernatural or spell like abilities (celestial animals), are more intelligent than your run of the mill animal (druids animal compaions), or have a bizzare appearence or mannarisms (sphynxes and gryffons).

For the record, a. druid animal companions are in fact animals, not magical beasts and b. they aren't smarter than your run of the mill animal either... their int doesn't change, they just have a special bond with their masters

 

[jigokusabre]

Rigt, familiars are magical beasts with higher int.