D&D 4E My Stab at 4e Creature Types

[TwinBahamut]

Based the division based on limbs, Beasts have limbs and serpents do not. If you can work up better categories please share, I'm half-way stumped trying to figure out where the dividing lines need to go anyway.

I guess if I am going to be critical of your scheme I might as well offer my own, so... Sure, I'll give it a shot.

Origin Types:
Immortal (all demons, devils, angels, primordials, and gods)
Elemental (the elementals, genies, salamanders, etc)
Fey (the problem with this is that it has a lot of crossover with Immortal, but...)
Undead (zombies, etc)
Construct (golems, warforged, etc)
Living/Animal (humans, animals, owlbears, etc)
Plant (treants, shambling mounds, etc)
Ooze (oozes, but shouldn't this count fungi too?)
Aberration (I don't like these, but they would be a type)

Form Types:
Humanoid (two arms, two legs, Humans, Orcs, Devils, classic Golems, genies, etc)
Beast (four legs: most land animals, Hellhounds, Unicorns, etc)
Avian (two legs, two wings: Birds, Rocs, Phoenix, etc)
Serpent (no limbs, long body: snakes and purple worms, etc)
Dragon (six limbs: true dragons, wyverns, pegasi?, Lammasu, etc)
Other (where could Beholders possibly fit in, anyways?)

The problem with this is that it might be getting a but too specific to be useful. Where would bugs and arachnids fit in? Do they deserve their own type? Where do a lot of the really bizarre Aberrations fit in? How does the many heads of a Hydra affect this? Do Pegasi really belong in the same type as ddragons? Would that mean humanoids with wings deserve their own type?

I'm not happy with my own creation, right now... At least I am fairly confident about the Origin types.

 

[DreamChaser]

Origin
Aberrant
Artificial
Draconic
Elemental
Immortal
Fey
Mortal
Undead

Type
Amorph
Beast
Humanoid


so we could have an aberrant amorph (like a beholder), aberrant beast (aboleth), aberrant humanoid (like illithid),

alternately, we could have aberrant humanoid (illithid), artificial humanoid (warforged), draconic humanoid (dragonborn), elemental humanoid (flame archon), immortal humanoid (spined devil), fey humanoid (eladrin), mortal humanoid (human), undead humanoid (lich).

add in the "classes" or "roles" and you have a complete monster.

the subtypes (cold, fire, evil) may or may not exist...not sure.

DC