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<blockquote data-quote="Dr_Ruminahui" data-source="post: 5726229" data-attributes="member: 81104">fba827 caught most of them, but I would like to add that there are also magic items (predominantly from the first AV) which have added effect (particualry on crits) versus creatures of a given origin - cold iron weapons versus fey, as one example.In my campaign, its really only come up for monster checks and the ritual magic circle - hitting paragon, the wizard has an arcana high enough to keep gods out with a good enough roll, and is constantly trying to think of ways of using the ritual to solve his and the world's problems .For example, he used it as an aberation detector - they had an NPC who was either dominated or replaced (ala dopelganger) by an aberation, so the wizard created a small magic circle keyed versus natural creatures and pushed the NPC into it - when the NPC bounced off, the PCs knew that the NPC was still a natural creature and most likely merely dominated.But yeah, for the most part 4e has moved away from effects triggered by creature origin, so for the most part its flavour text though there are corner cases where it can make a mechanical rules difference.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dr_Ruminahui, post: 5726229, member: 81104"] fba827 caught most of them, but I would like to add that there are also magic items (predominantly from the first AV) which have added effect (particualry on crits) versus creatures of a given origin - cold iron weapons versus fey, as one example. In my campaign, its really only come up for monster checks and the ritual magic circle - hitting paragon, the wizard has an arcana high enough to keep gods out with a good enough roll, and is constantly trying to think of ways of using the ritual to solve his and the world's problems . For example, he used it as an aberation detector - they had an NPC who was either dominated or replaced (ala dopelganger) by an aberation, so the wizard created a small magic circle keyed versus natural creatures and pushed the NPC into it - when the NPC bounced off, the PCs knew that the NPC was still a natural creature and most likely merely dominated. But yeah, for the most part 4e has moved away from effects triggered by creature origin, so for the most part its flavour text though there are corner cases where it can make a mechanical rules difference. [/QUOTE]

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