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[dave2008]

There was a question of "how do you know when something is magical" and the answer was "it will tell you." Neither breath weapons or most attacks from monsters say they are magical in the MM.

That was a question about Dispel Magic, I did read that. I just didn't make the connection that you did.

However, think that is specific to what Dispel Magic affects. There are many things that are not noted as magical (dragon and beholder flight for example), but they are magical (during 2014 discussions WotC called this innate or background magic IIRC). However, that type of "magic" can't be dispelled and therefore is not listed as magical.

 

[dave2008]

Regardless of how rocky the process of getting there was, my point is that they did eventually land on pretty much perfect stealth rules. They could have just kept those for 5e, but decided something that more explicitly centered the conversation of play was more fitting for 5e’s design goals, and sure, that’s not unreasonable. But then for the 2024 revision they decided to go back to having more explicit rules, but instead of leaning on what they had already learned from past editions, they for some reason decided to completely re-write the rules again in what very well may have been the worst way they possibly could have.

Which version is that? I don't think I have any errata to the 4e stealth rules, just the original.

 

[Tessarael]

Or go the other way like Pathfinder 2e that has

Hidden
Concealed
AND Undetected

in order to make stealth "logical".

I just read through the Pathfinder 2E rules:

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This look sensible to me. Thank you for the suggestion.