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Question on a scenario:
Let's say there is a fight between dragons -- on one side a normal ancient gold dragon, the other is an Ancient Blue Dread Dracolich.
Now, in the middle of the battlefield is a large anti-magic field that is able to encompass the entire space of the blue dragon -- is the breath weapon of the gold able to penetrate the anti-magic field if it originates outside the field?
The ability (breath weapon) itself is supernatural, but is it's 'effect' supernatural enough to be suppressed by the anti-magic field?
Or does this devolve into a slap-fight?
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Slap fight.
Breath Weapons are labeled Supernatural, so they are magical in their entirety unless you can find a specific rules that says otherwise.
Also, this:
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Some creatures can exhale a cone, line, or cloud of energy or other magical effects.
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"Cloud of energy or other magical effect" makes it pretty clear that the gold dragon isn't just spitting out flaming oil or something.
A burning Hands spell wouldn't be able to penetrate the AMF, so neither should the Breath Weapon.
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For what it's worth, antimagic field when cast has been updated to extend 10ft beyond it's caster, specifically so that dragons could cast it and be immune to magic, instead of having only part of their body covered and leading to having to make up a bunch of rules to what happens because of that.
But basically yeah, it because a natural attack slap fight if the both cover themselves in antimagic.
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For what it's worth, antimagic field when cast has been updated to extend 10ft beyond it's caster, specifically so that dragons could cast it and be immune to magic, instead of having only part of their body covered and leading to having to make up a bunch of rules to what happens because of that.
But basically yeah, it because a natural attack slap fight if the both cover themselves in antimagic.
Well, in this particular case, the anti-magic field is a trap that could be triggered that is centered on the trap mechanism that the Dragon is aware of, and not centered on the Dragon itself.