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.