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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dyir" data-source="post: 1067442" data-attributes="member: 13293">I believe you mistook my mention of racial vs. type traits.  Does a pit fiend retain its fiendish traits: yes.  It's outsider traits: no.  Thus, it would keep all of its spell-like abilities, SR, elemental resistance, etc.  but not the "outsider type" traits (i.e. Darkvision and its inability to be raised, although Darkvision would come back because that's also a Dragon type trait).  "Human" is both a race and a subtype, but "Humanoid" is an exception, not the rule.  The human racial abilities are not a feature of its subtype, but its race.  This is the same as an elf, as a gnome, as a pixie, as a great wyrm red dragon.  They all have abilities based upon their types and their races.Most types have so few traits that changing them is negligable.  If an animal became a magical beast, what abilities would change?  A humanoid to a monsterous humanoid?  But the difference between two that have quite a few type traits (like the plant, undead, and construct) could be meaningful.Its fine that an awakened tree has no Constitution score, as that is not required to be a Plant really.  It can be treated an an animated object with the Plant type, but it does not have the Construct type nor any abilities associated with it.</blockquote>