Creature Types, Creature Types everywhere.

[Sekhmet]

A buddy of mine woke up this morning, called me, and asked a question I hadn't really thought about before and can't seem to locate a ruling on.

What if an Undead gains a Type other than Undead (Outsider, for example)?
Do you treat it as the new Type, retain it's old Type, or does it have both Types?

 

[RUMBLETiGER]

a discussion of the type pyramid presented in Savage Species found here

 

[Sekhmet]

Anyone else hate that book with a passion?

 

[Tovec]

As to the original question.
Undead rarely (if ever) become Outsiders (or plants or anything), but can be outsiders (or humanoids) that become undead. If they are, as far as I know, their type is "Undead (augmented outsider[or humanoid/or whatever], etc.)"

Example, an undead... Leonal
Undead (Augmented Outsider, Good, Guardinal, Extraplanar*)
*If not on its native plane.
ps. Please forgive if I missed a subtype, I don't have the book in front of me.

Anyone else hate that book with a passion?

YES.
It is barely legal/canon except people keep citing it.

 

[Empirate]

It is barely legal

It just turned 18? But who would want to do adult things with Savage Species, anyway? It's full of Gelatinous Bears and kiddy stuff like that...

 

[Sekhmet]

It just turned 18? But who would want to do adult things with Savage Species, anyway? It's full of Gelatinous Bears and kiddy stuff like that...

I want to give you experience for this post so bad that it makes it hurt when I pee.