Clay Golem Immunities ; Magic (see below help) "Golem Antimagic"

[Ascalaphus]

Errenor wrote:

Ascalaphus wrote:

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Any Strike that benefits from this damage gains the arcane trait, making it magical.

I think the point was to make the damage magical, not the Strike. Read extremely literally, it does the opposite.

Well... no. 'Strike ... gains arcane trait', that is very clear. And I just can't read 'it' in 'making it magical' as 'strike'. But even if that were true, that doesn't matter. Strike still has arcane trait, and this still makes it magical (because of general rules for traditions traits) not just its damage.

Yes that's exactly my point: the RAW is probably wrong for the RAI.

[Squiggit]

It's possible. It's also possible it just does what it says it does. Yeah, Cascade has another error in it, but that one is much more straight forward in terms of what the error and intent is. That's not really the case with this part of the ability.

[Ascalaphus]

Squiggit wrote:

It's possible. It's also possible it just does what it says it does. Yeah, Cascade has another error in it, but that one is much more straight forward in terms of what the error and intent is. That's not really the case with this part of the ability.

So what then was the point of making the Strike, not the damage, magical? What purpose is that supposed to achieve?

[Errenor]

Ascalaphus wrote:

Squiggit wrote:

It's possible. It's also possible it just does what it says it does. Yeah, Cascade has another error in it, but that one is much more straight forward in terms of what the error and intent is. That's not really the case with this part of the ability.

So what then was the point of making the Strike, not the damage, magical? What purpose is that supposed to achieve?

When something is an oversight it doesn't have any purpose. And this is very possibly just it.