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A Rakshasa has the following trait:

Limited Magic Immunity. The rakshasa is immune to spells of 6th level or lower unless it wishes to be affected. It has advantage on saving throws against all other spells and magical effects.

Meanwhile, Animate Objects states:

Objects come to life at your command. Choose up to ten nonmagical objects within range that are not being worn or carried.

I'm curious if a Rakshasa would be immune from the attacks of these living objects created by Animate Objects as, while the items themselves are nonmagical, they move only because of a magic spell effect.

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related. I asked this in the past specifically because of the damned rakshasa rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/73349/… – OganM 10 hours ago
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A Rakshasa's Limited Immunity does not grant them immunity from the 5th level spell Animated Objects, but it is immune to the damage given by those Animated Objects, for a different reason (non-magical damage immunity).

Limited Magic Immunity does not apply to Animated Objects because the spell itself is not dealing the damage - it is done by the constructs created by the spell (another example of a spell that the Rakshasa is not immune to would be Conjure Elemental.)

The Limited Magic Immunity is for direct spell effects against it that consist of spells with attack rolls or saves. This is supported by the next sentence

It has advantage on saving throws against all other spells and magical effects

The reason they are immune to the damage caused by Animated Objects is because Raksasha have Damage immunity to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical weapons (MM, 257) and Animated Objects give non-magical damage.

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You may want to move your last paragraph up to the top of the answer. At first I thought that you were implying that the Rakshasa wouldn't take damage from the Animated Objects because of the Limited Magic Immunity. The last paragraph clarifies that, but before then I was thought the answer was going on a completely different route – D.Spetz 10 hours ago
    
@D.Spetz I adjusted the initial bold part to help clarify. The last paragraph is not part of the OP question, but a clarification on the results of the use of Animated Objects on the Rakshasa. – NautArch 10 hours ago
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No.

Rakshasa are immune to spells of 6th level or lower, not to attacks. Since an animated object is for all intents and purposes a creature (specifically, they are constructs), and the the Rakshasa are not immune to attacks, there is no reason to believe that they would be immune to attacks from animated objects.

In other words, the spell Animate Objects doesn't target the Rakshasa. It targets inanimate objects and brings them to "life." Those constructs created from the spell then attack the Rakshasa. This is, in effect, no different from a golem attacking a Rakshasa.

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