Re: Monster Protection

[Simon McIntosh-Smith <Simon.N.Smith@cm.cf.ac.uk>]

> burning hands not being magic means nothing this:
> (in the archetypes)
> dragons use 'burning hands' as their breath.  this is
> supposed to be real fire.  however, if you amke the
> archetype a magical attack, dragon breath will be magical too.
> 
> What happens is that when a player uses a wand, staff, scroll, rod, hor
> or whatever in spells.c, the attacktype is ORed with AT_MAGIC.
> 
> This is the general case with spells.

OK, so how are we supposed to know what counts as a magical attack and
what counts as a non-magical attack without looking at the code!?

(eg You are surrounded by flames - are they magical or are they non-magical
flames? Will your amulet of "immune to magical" help you or not?)

Could someone list which spell effects are magical and which aren't?

Thanks,

Sy

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