I feel it adds a certain familiarity to the world that is usually coated in magic and fantasy. My favorite beast to add in my games to spice things up is dinosaurs. Typically, these creatures aren’t highly intelligent. A lot of the time anything that isn’t a humanoid, and lives in a state of perpetual survival would be considered a beast. Relatively simple creatures, horses, dogs, bears are all types of beasts. If you’ve ever seen the TV show Stargate, you’ll know there is a similar creature known as Goa’uld, only Aboleths are much bigger!īeast – This is a pretty simple one, creatures that are naturally occurring in the prime material plane of your world or any DnD setting. When an Aboleth is born, it retains all the memories of its ancestors.

Typically, they are always evil and have their own machinations going on. These creatures are enormous eel-like creatures with telepathic and psionic abilities. Although sometimes this designation can describe the unnatural nature of the creature, even if it is from the main local cosmology of your world or any other DnD setting.Ī good example of this would be the Aboleth. Alien beings from other dimensions or worlds. Creature TypesĪberration – Typically creatures that fall under this category are considered “outsiders” things not of this world.

We’ll be going over a quick description for each creature type and then giving an example of a creature from that type. In today’s post, DnD 5e Creature Types Explained, I thought we’d go over the basics of each of the multitude of creatures in this fantastic game! Happy Sunday everyone! Hope the New Year has been treating you well.

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