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<blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 6725380" data-attributes="member: 2067"><p>The RAW is funny here.</p><p></p><p>Pg. 76 says that ki is a kind of magic (it's "a magical energy"), and by that you could infer that <em>everything</em> a monk does is magical, from martial arts to Evasion to getting +2 to an ability score.</p><p></p><p>You could also take a more strict view that anything that mentions ki or uses ki points is magical - so, yes for flurry of blows, no for Evasion and Cloak of Shadows. </p><p></p><p>Not that this has much bearing on what individual DMs do, of course, it just indicates that the line is <em>technically</em> pretty blurry. Evasion when done by a monk is maybe magical, so when done by a rogue maybe it is or it isn't, but it's the same effect. Or turning invisible might be magical, or it might not be. </p><p></p><p>But this also leaves room for a less-magical monk who maybe does not use ki at all. Or it could leave room for a ki narrative that doesn't define ki as magical (so nothing a monk does is "magic.")</p><p></p><p>And this doesn't even touch on things like....dragon flight. I mean, clearly, that's not "natural," but does it stop happening in an anti-magic zone? I don't think so? But does a basilisk's stare, or a cockatrice's bite? Maybe?</p><p></p><p>I think there's plenty of room to play in that space for inspirational healing. The Paladin already does (Lay on Hands is in the same boat as a monk's ability score increase - defined as "magical" in the class fluff, but studiously avoiding that definition in the ability's actual description).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="I'm A Banana, post: 6725380, member: 2067"] The RAW is funny here. Pg. 76 says that ki is a kind of magic (it's "a magical energy"), and by that you could infer that [I]everything[/I] a monk does is magical, from martial arts to Evasion to getting +2 to an ability score. You could also take a more strict view that anything that mentions ki or uses ki points is magical - so, yes for flurry of blows, no for Evasion and Cloak of Shadows. Not that this has much bearing on what individual DMs do, of course, it just indicates that the line is [I]technically[/I] pretty blurry. Evasion when done by a monk is maybe magical, so when done by a rogue maybe it is or it isn't, but it's the same effect. Or turning invisible might be magical, or it might not be. But this also leaves room for a less-magical monk who maybe does not use ki at all. Or it could leave room for a ki narrative that doesn't define ki as magical (so nothing a monk does is "magic.") And this doesn't even touch on things like....dragon flight. I mean, clearly, that's not "natural," but does it stop happening in an anti-magic zone? I don't think so? But does a basilisk's stare, or a cockatrice's bite? Maybe? I think there's plenty of room to play in that space for inspirational healing. The Paladin already does (Lay on Hands is in the same boat as a monk's ability score increase - defined as "magical" in the class fluff, but studiously avoiding that definition in the ability's actual description). [/QUOTE]
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