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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 7842693" data-attributes="member: 58172">It seems to me, there is no such thing as a ‘subtype’ in D&D 5e. This parenthetical categorization is called a ‘tag’.The tag can be anything that helps to categorize the relationship of a creature to other creatures.The official examples of tags so far, such as Elf, even Half-Elf, Dwarf, and so on, imply a ‘tag’ is identical to the term ‘race’, except the term ‘race’ can only be used for a ‘player character race’.The tag implies, ‘goblinoid’ too is equivalent to a race, and Goblin, Hobgoblin, and Bugbear are subraces of the Goblinoid race.In other words, the player character race ‘Elf’, can include subraces that are very different mechanically from the Elf that is found in the Players Handbook.For example, it was possible to make the Eladrin as different from the Elf as the Bugbear is to the Goblin, and still give the Eladrin the ‘elf’ tag.In the future, there can be an ‘elf’ that is really different mechanically, such as completely lacking an ability score improvement to Dexterity. For example, the Sun Elf might improve Charisma +2, and Intelligence +2, and still receive the ‘elf’ tag.Oddly, the respective tags imply ‘demon’ and ‘devil’ are equivalent to two separate races of fiends.Notice. Both ‘dragon’ and ‘giant’ are each both a type and a race. In contrast to the types ‘dragon’ and ‘giant’, the races per se are called ‘True Dragon’ and ‘True Giant’.Hypothetically, it could be possible to tag a ‘True Dragon’ that existed in an other plane.</blockquote>

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