Does bludgeoning damage from spells count as magical?

It is being created by a spell, using a melee spell attack to hit, and the spell damage increases with level. Thus it is magical damage.

What counts as magical damage 5e?

Magical damage just means any damage from a magical source. Fire resistance and immunity applies to the damage type, regardless of source (unless specifically stated otherwise). There is no such thing as “Magical Damage” in 5e. There is only damage from nonmagical sources, and damage from magical sources.

What type of damage is bludgeoning?

Bludgeoning is a physical damage type caused by smashing an opponent with a heavy, flat or rounded surface. This type of damage can be mitigated with bludgeoning damage immunity, bludgeoning damage resistance, or general damage reduction.

Is catapult magical bludgeoning damage?

The catapult does full damage The catapult deals bludgeoning damage. Scarecrow, in its most recent version, has a resistance towards Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing damage from Nonmagical Attacks (emphasis mine; see the monster’s stat block on DnDBeyond).

Do +1 weapons count as magical damage?

The list of damage types includes “radiant”, “necrotic”, “bludgeoning”,”fire”, and so on. The +1 Mace does Bludgeoning damage, but it is a magic item and therefore does so as a magical attack. Hence it bypasses the resistance to “bludgeoning damage from non-magical attacks”.

Does Spike Growth count as magical damage?

Thank you for not reporting us. The difference with Conjure Animals is that the spell isn’t dealing damage, the spell itself just creates the animals, which aren’t themselves magical. Where as with Spike Growth, it’s the spell effect itself that is causing the damage, thus it is magical.

Is fireball magical damage?

Fireball does damage, sourced from fire, also sourced from magic. So magic resistance and fire resistance both help you; however, if you sat on a torch, only your fire resistance would help.

What does bludgeoning damage do DND 5e?

For example, skeletons in 5e have a vulnerability to bludgeoning damage. If you rolled a total of five bludgeoning damage from an attack, a skeleton takes 10 damage instead. A creature with a resistance to a damage type takes half the amount of damage from that type. For example, ghosts in 5e resist fire damage.

Is Force damage bludgeoning?

Basically, Force Damage deals any kind of damage that is not: Bludgeoning.

Do spells deal magic damage?

Unless the spell has a stipulation in it like catapult (launching something non magical by magical means) then yes it is magic damage.

Is erupting earth magic damage?

If the spell was intended to deal damage to objects and terrain it would say so explicitly. In this case “erupting” is just descriptive of the way the dirt and rocks act, but not of any mechanical effects to the surrounding area.

Do magic items do magic damage?

There is no such thing as “magical damage”. The list of damage types includes “radiant”, “necrotic”, “bludgeoning”,”fire”, and so on. The +1 Mace does Bludgeoning damage, but it is a magic item and therefore does so as a magical attack. Hence it bypasses the resistance to “bludgeoning damage from non-magical attacks”.

Is piercing damage magical or non-magical damage?

Thus it is magical damage. The spell description only states piercing damage, and it’s the object created by the spell that does the damage rather than the spell directly. Thus it is nonmagical damage.

What type of damage does a weapon deal in 5e?

In 5e, unless the weapon is magical, it deals either bludgeoning, slashing, or piercing damage. Is there ever a situation in which the type of damage a weapon deals has some sort of mechanical benefit?

Is there such a thing as ‘magical damage’?

There is not such a term as “magical damage” within the game rules; thus, AFAIK Resistances and Immunities don’t ever state the words “magical damage”. For example take “bludgeoning, slashing and piercing damage from nonmagical weapons that aren’t silvered”.

Do demon lords have damage immunity to piercing and piercing?

Looking outside the Basic Rules, Demon Lords from Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes, such as the Demogorgon on page 144, have Damage Immunity to “bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing that is nonmagical.” I find it unlikely that allof these are mistakes.