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.