Monster Types

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Monster Types

Epic Path features the following monster types, each with unique characteristics:

Monster Type	Description	Strong Saves	Vision	Alignment	Breathe?	Eat?	Sleep?
Aberration	An aberration has a bizarre anatomy, strange abilities, an alien mindset, or any combination of the three.	Will	Darkvision 60 ft.	Any	Yes	Yes	Yes
Animal	An animal is a living, nonhuman creature, usually a vertebrate with no magical abilities and no innate capacity for language or culture.	Fort, Refl	Low-Light 120 ft.	Neutral	Yes	Yes	Yes
Construct	A construct is an animated object or artificially created creature.	-	Darkvision 60 ft., Low-Light 120 ft.	Any (Usually Neutral)	No	No	No
Dragon	A dragon is a reptile-like creature, usually winged, with magical or unusual abilities.	Fort, Refl, Will	Darkvision 60 ft., Low-Light 120 ft.	Any	Yes	Yes	Yes
Fey	A fey is a creature with supernatural abilities and connections to nature and the Fey realm (the First World). Fey are usually human-shaped.	Refl, Will	Low-Light 120 ft.	Any	Yes	Yes	Yes
Humanoid	A humanoid usually has two arms, two legs, and one head, or a human-like torso, arms, and a head. Humanoids have few or no supernatural or extraordinary abilities, but most can speak and usually have well-developed societies.	Any one (usually Reflex)	- (varies)	Any	Yes	Yes	Yes
Magical Beast	Magical beasts are similar to animals but tend to be smarter. Magical beasts usually have supernatural or extraordinary abilities, but are sometimes merely bizarre in appearance or habits.	Fort, Refl	Low-Light 120 ft.	Any	Yes	Yes	Yes
Monstrous Humanoid	Monstrous humanoids are similar to humanoids, but with monstrous or animalistic features. They often have magical abilities as well.	Refl, Will	Darkvision 60 ft.	Any	Yes	Yes	Yes
Ooze	An ooze is an amorphous or mutable creature, usually mindless.	None	Varies (Blindsense 60 ft., Tremorsense 60 ft.)	Any (Usually Neutral)	No	Yes	No
Outsider	An outsider is at least partially composed of the essence (but not necessarily the material) of some plane other than the Material Plane.	Refl, Will	Darkvision 60 ft.	Any	Yes	No1	No1
Plant	This type comprises monstrous vegetable creatures. Note that regular plants are not creatures, but objects, even though they are alive.	Fort	Low-Light 120 ft.	Any (Usually Neutral)	Yes	Yes	No
Protean	This type comprises shape-changing creatures or creatures with mutable physical structures.	Fort, Will	- (varies)	Any (Usually Evil)	Yes	Yes	Yes
Swarm	A swarm is a collection of Fine, Diminutive, or Tiny creatures that acts as a single creature.	Fort	- (varies)	Any (Usually Neutral)	Yes	Yes	Yes
Troop	A Troop is a collection of small or larger creatures that acts as a single creature, gaining many of the benefits of a swarm.	Fort	- (varies)	Any	Yes	Yes	Yes
Undead	Undead are once-living creatures animated by spiritual or supernatural forces.	Will	Darkvision 60 ft.	Any (Usually Evil)	No	Varies2	Varies3
Vermin	This type includes insects, arachnids, other arthropods, worms, and similar invertebrates.	Fort	Darkvision 60 ft.	Any (Usually Neutral)	Yes	Yes	Yes

• ¹ - Outsiders with the Native subtype must eat and sleep.
• ² - Skeleton and spectral-type undead do not eat, but flesh-type (zombies, ghouls, vampires, etc.) must eat
• ³ - Vampires must sleep. Undead who cast spells must meditate or sleep for 6 hours to recover spells.