Dual-Type D&D Monsters

Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition loves categorizing aspects of itself, especially in the new OneD&D Playtest, as they are categorizing the classes into groups (like Expert Classes). This makes it so that a spell, feature, or some other rule can affect an entire group of similar creatures, and they don’t have to list them all out. A spell like Turn Undead can affect every creature in the Undead category.

There are 14 categories, with each creature in only one:

• Aberration
• Beast
• Celestial
• Construct
• Dragon
• Elemental
• Fey
• Fiend
• Giant
• Humanoid
• Monstrosity
• Ooze
• Plant
• Undead

Last week, @SpicyEncounters on Twitter tweeted this:

Honestly #dnd creatures (& monsters specifically) should be allowed to have more than one type.

I want a Undead Plant that reanimates corpses to move around.

I want mad max style Fiendish Constructs.

I want the absolute lovecraftian nightmare of an Aberration Celestial.

— Spicy Encounters 5e |…