Sage Advice: Sneak Attacks, Breath Weapons, and Magic Weapons

The month's Sage Advice column by WotC's Jeremy Crawford covers the rogue's sneak attacks, ability modifiers to use with attack roles, and answers the questions "does anti-magic field work on a dragon's breath weapon?" (no), and "do magic weapons automatically give you bonus to both attack and damage rolls?" (only if it says so in the description).

The Sage Advice Compendium PDF has been updated to include this information. You can read the current column here.

 

[Z. H. Darkstar]

So by this article's logic, a Sun Soul Monk loses Radiant Sun Bolt in an antimagic field, but can still throw kamehamehas and use its 17th level ability?

Hmmmm...Something's not adding up right...

 

[TwoSix]

So by this article's logic, a Sun Soul Monk loses Radiant Sun Bolt in an antimagic field, but can still throw kamehamehas and use its 17th level ability?

Hmmmm...Something's not adding up right...

Weird, I thought they couldn't throw kamehamehas until their level was somewhere over nine thousand.

 

[NotActuallyTim]

So by this article's logic, a Sun Soul Monk loses Radiant Sun Bolt in an antimagic field, but can still throw kamehamehas and use its 17th level ability?

Hmmmm...Something's not adding up right...

Yeah. Means zombies can walk around in dead magic zones, too.

 

[ThirdWizard]

Yeah. Means zombies can walk around in dead magic zones, too.

Even a zombie raised with the animate dead spell is now a creature and wouldn't be affected by anti-magic, though.

 

[Z. H. Darkstar]

Weird, I thought they couldn't throw kamehamehas until their level was somewhere over nine thousand.

I'm away from book right now, so I didn't know the names off the top of my head. Therefore, I reverted to my initial impressions of hadouken, kamehameha, and super saiyan.

 

[UngeheuerLich]

Zombies are uneffected by antimagic... why should they?
Should your freshly healed leg bleed again?

 

[jaelis]

I like that there's a straightforward way to decide. Of course if you're the DM and think a certain case should count as magic, you can just say it is.

 

[NotActuallyTim]

Zombies are uneffected by antimagic... why should they?
Should your freshly healed leg bleed again?

Are you saying the undead aren't magic?

I was under the impression that undeath is friendship.

 

[TwoSix]

Are you saying the undead aren't magic?

I was under the impression that undeath is friendship.

Gives a whole new spin to BFF. (Best Friends FOREVER!)