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Creature Type

Source: Player’s Handbook (2024) p. 364. Available in the SRD and the Free Rules (2024)

Every creature, including every player character, has a tag in the rules that identifies the type of creature it is. Most player characters are of the Humanoid type. These are the game’s creature types:

• Aberration
• Beast
• Celestial
• Construct
• Dragon
• Elemental
• Fey
• Fiend
• Giant
• Humanoid
• Monstrosity
• Ooze
• Plant
• Undead

The types don’t have rules themselves, but some rules in the game affect creatures of certain types in different ways.