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Reynard, is this question motivated more by concerns about gameplay ("Borg has resistance against spell attacks, but not abilities, so what happens in this circumstance?") or more by the theoretical question of where the principled line between spells and non-spell magic sits? For example, suppose some PC or NPC can "cast" the equivalent of Fire Bolt as an innate ability. That's clearly a magical attack, but is it a spell attack? Is that the sort of question you're concerned with?What is a spell in the fiction of the game, and what isn't?
This specifically came up in context of spellcasting NPCs having not-spell spell attacks and how to square that in the fiction. But it extends beyond that, to spell like abilities and psionics and magical talents and so on.
On the theoretical question I'm skeptical there is a coherent line for us to draw, so I'll likely just shrug my shoulders. On the former, though, I imagine there should be some way of fairly adjudicating the dilemmas raised.