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<blockquote data-quote="HeavenShallBurn" data-source="post: 3985403" data-attributes="member: 39593"><p>Reposting from HR because it's probably more appropriate here and can't get the report thread button to work to ask for a move.</p><p></p><p>Based on what we've seen in the way of scoops via the DDM2 cards, Races & Classes, and Monsters & Worlds I'm taking a stab at a 4e style creature type system. Probably not an entire match for 4e but this is close as I could come off the top of my head while minimizing unnecessary types or subtypes.</p><p></p><p><strong>Creature Type/Body Style (Subtype)</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>Creature Types</strong></p><p>Aberration</p><p>Construct</p><p>Elemental</p><p><s>Exemplar</s> Immortal</p><p>Fey</p><p>Mortal</p><p>Undead</p><p></p><p><strong>Body Styles</strong></p><p>Amorphous</p><p>Beast</p><p>Dragon</p><p>Humanoid</p><p>Serpent</p><p>Vermin</p><p></p><p><strong>Subtypes</strong></p><p>Alignment Subtypes: Chaos, Evil, Good, Law</p><p>Elemental/Energy Subtypes: Air, Cold, Earth, Fire, Water</p><p><s>Exemplar</s> Immortal Subtypes: <s>Angel, Celestial, Fiend***</s> Angel?, Devil, Demon?</p><p>CT/BS Modifying Subtypes: Aquatic, Augmented, Incorporeal, Shapechanger, Swarm</p><p></p><p>***This is based on changes to the cosmology in my homebrew. See spoiler below if interested</p><p></p><p>[sblock]I made one infinite outer plane upon which all the deities and exemplars have their realms. When gods or powerful exemplars such as demon lords stake out a claim to an area they create a realm like the godly realms of planescape with their own environment and planar traits mutable to the whim of the entity in question. </p><p></p><p>Angels are servants of deities, and created by deities, they may serve deities of any alignment. Abilities are swapped to match the alignment of the god they serve.</p><p></p><p>Most all the planar exemplars still exist they just don't have separate subtypes anymore. Archons, Gaurdinals, Eladrin, and the other celestials retain their differences and essential characters but are all the <em>Celestial</em> subtype. Eladrin have changes to differentiate them from the Fey. This is because Fey are the embodiment of Chaotic Neutral and Slaad are gone. Demons, Devils, Yugoloths, and all the other lower planar exemplars are siloed into the <em>Fiend</em> subtype but are otherwise the same. Inevitables are all constructs not outsiders, though they serve the same purpose with the same flavor.[/sblock]</p><p></p><p>Anything important I missed, suggestions? Does anyone else have an idea for more Body Styles because I think I covered most of them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HeavenShallBurn, post: 3985403, member: 39593"] Reposting from HR because it's probably more appropriate here and can't get the report thread button to work to ask for a move. Based on what we've seen in the way of scoops via the DDM2 cards, Races & Classes, and Monsters & Worlds I'm taking a stab at a 4e style creature type system. Probably not an entire match for 4e but this is close as I could come off the top of my head while minimizing unnecessary types or subtypes. [B]Creature Type/Body Style (Subtype)[/B] [B]Creature Types[/B] Aberration Construct Elemental [s]Exemplar[/s] Immortal Fey Mortal Undead [B]Body Styles[/B] Amorphous Beast Dragon Humanoid Serpent Vermin [B]Subtypes[/B] Alignment Subtypes: Chaos, Evil, Good, Law Elemental/Energy Subtypes: Air, Cold, Earth, Fire, Water [S]Exemplar[/S] Immortal Subtypes: [S]Angel, Celestial, Fiend***[/S] Angel?, Devil, Demon? CT/BS Modifying Subtypes: Aquatic, Augmented, Incorporeal, Shapechanger, Swarm ***This is based on changes to the cosmology in my homebrew. See spoiler below if interested [sblock]I made one infinite outer plane upon which all the deities and exemplars have their realms. When gods or powerful exemplars such as demon lords stake out a claim to an area they create a realm like the godly realms of planescape with their own environment and planar traits mutable to the whim of the entity in question. Angels are servants of deities, and created by deities, they may serve deities of any alignment. Abilities are swapped to match the alignment of the god they serve. Most all the planar exemplars still exist they just don't have separate subtypes anymore. Archons, Gaurdinals, Eladrin, and the other celestials retain their differences and essential characters but are all the [I]Celestial[/I] subtype. Eladrin have changes to differentiate them from the Fey. This is because Fey are the embodiment of Chaotic Neutral and Slaad are gone. Demons, Devils, Yugoloths, and all the other lower planar exemplars are siloed into the [I]Fiend[/I] subtype but are otherwise the same. Inevitables are all constructs not outsiders, though they serve the same purpose with the same flavor.[/sblock] Anything important I missed, suggestions? Does anyone else have an idea for more Body Styles because I think I covered most of them. [/QUOTE]
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