Questions tagged [antimagic-field]
For questions related to areas that suppress magic.
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Is all telepathy always magical?
Telepathy is generally described as magical:
Telepathy is a magical ability that allows a creature to communicate mentally with another creature within a specified range.
Does that mean that all ...
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Is a Druid's Wild Shape feature magical?
Does a wildshaped Druid revert if it enters an antimagic field? Would someone casting Detect Magic in the Druid's vicinity notice the animal bears a magical aura?
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Can you detect magic through an antimagic field?
It is clear to me that you cannot use detect magic while in an antimagic field, cannot detect a magic item that is in the field from the outside, (as both the item's magic is suppressed, and detect ...
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What happens if a summoned and bound creature enters an antimagic field?
We had a run-in with a beholder recently, in the bowels of Undermountain, a megadungeon where special god-like magic blocks planar travel effects like banishment or plane shift when they are used to ...
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Is it possible to avoid ending Time Stop by making attacks from inside an Antimagic Field?
Okay so, the effects of Time Stop:
You briefly stop the flow of time for everyone but yourself. No time passes for other creatures, while you take 1d4 + 1 turns in a row, during which you can use ...
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Does Arcane Archer's "Magical Arrow" Ability work against antimagic field?
Would the level 7 Ability "Magic Arrow" work against a target with an anti-magic field?
The Magic Arrow Description says:
At 7th level, you gain the ability to infuse arrows with magic. ...
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Can fairies fly in an antimagic field?
Another question had raised this issue when fairies were part of Unearthed Arcana and indicated that they couldn't because the flight was magical.
However, I noticed that on DND beyond that the flight ...
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Does an Antimagic Field suppress the ability score increases granted by the Manual or Tome magic items?
There are several "manual"/"tome" magic items that permanently increase a character's ability score and the maximum value for that score by 2: the Manual of Bodily Health, the ...
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Does Spiritual Weapon keep working if the caster is in an antimagic field?
Suppose a Cleric already cast the Spiritual Weapon spell to create a spectral weapon. If the Cleric is in an Antimagic Field but the weapon isn't, can the Cleric still use their bonus action to ...
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Golem Anti-Magic, its exceptions and Spiritual Weapon
My party fought a wood golem and encountered anti-magic for the first time (to hilarious effect) however the rules are ambiguous and I came up against some conflicts.
Specifically:
Anti-magic: A ...
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Does antimagic field affect Gem Flight?
Gem Flight, Fizban's Treasure of Dragons, pg. 11
You can use a bonus action to manifest spectral wings for 1 minute.
For the duration, you gain a flying speed equal to your walking speed
and can ...
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If a spell is centered on a point, does suppressing the spell at that point suppress the whole spell?
Some area spells are centered on a point, such as fog cloud:
You create a 20-foot-radius sphere of fog centered on a point within range.
Another example is the darkness spell:
Magical darkness ...
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Can I move an Arcane Eye in and out of an Antimagic Field?
An Antimagic Field is a 10-foot-radius invisible sphere which suppresses the magical effects on objects and creatures, prevents spell casting inside its AoE and spells with an AoE (e.g., Fireball) can'...
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What's the best way to resolve a paradox created when a mage shapeshifted into a larger creature enters an antimagic field, but its true form doesn't?
This is based on a situation that's happening in my current campaign, though the example below is simplified to remove unnecessary context.
The shapechange spell (Player's Handbook, page 274) only ...
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Will two Antimagic Fields cancel each other out?
Let's say you have two items with an antimagic field bound to each of them. What happens when they come in range of each other?
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Does Dispel Magic work on a self-targeting spell cast by an artifact and emanating from within an antimagic field?
A character has a sentient artifact able to cast Holy Aura. Another character casts Antimagic Field and the two effects overlap, so that the origins of both spells are within both spell effects.
Can ...
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Is Wall of Stone suppressed by Antimagic Field?
I noticed that the Wall of Stone spell includes this interesting tidbit in its first sentence (emphasized in bold):
A nonmagical wall of solid stone springs into existence at a point you choose ...
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What happens if I sail a folding boat into an antimagic field?
A folding boat is a magic item that can transform from a small box into a small or large boat and back. If I transform it into a boat and then sail it through an antimagic field, what will happen?
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What aspects of a Shield Guardian's protection are negated by Antimagic Field?
A Shield Guardian is bound to a master by an amulet:
Master's Amulet. Every shield guardian has an amulet magically linked to it. [...] A shield guardian's solitary focus is to protect the amulet's ...
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Is a creature standing in an Antimagic Field subject to the effects produced by Control Weather?
Say, for example, that a person is standing in an Antimagic Field when a nearby disgruntled Druid decides to create a 5 mile radius freezing hailstorm via Control Weather.
Would that person be ...
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Can a creature take turns as normal if they are inside an Antimagic Field while another creature casts Time Stop?
Time stop is a spell that stops time for other creatures, allowing one creature to take multiple turns in a row. It says:
You briefly stop the flow of time for everyone but yourself. No time passes ...
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Monk Slow Fall and Antimagic Field [duplicate]
Is a monk's Slow Fall ability considered magical? That is if a monk were to enter an antimagic field whilst falling, would their slow fall ability be negated by the antimagic field, the same way some ...
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Creating a personal exception to anti-magic? [closed]
Does anyone have any in-game knowledge of a way how to be able to create an object or some such that grants a character the ability to still cast/power magics while in a dead magic zone or anti magic ...
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How do dimensional shackles work in an antimagic field
I have several questions regarding how Dimensional Shackles work in an antimagic field (below are the relevant parts of their descriptions):
Dimensional Shackles:
[...] In addition to serving as ...
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Can the Detect Magic spell detect an Antimagic Field spell?
This is a duplicate of this question, but for a different gaming system; Pathfinder v1 vs DnD 5e. Also relevant, but slightly different is this question about intersection.
So the gist is, a wizard ...
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