D20r:Types and Subtypes
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An incorporeal creature moves silently and cannot be heard with Awareness checks if it doesn't wish to be. It has no Strength score, so its Dexterity modifier applies to both its melee attacks and its ranged attacks. Non-visual senses, such as scent and blindsight, are either ineffective or only partly effective with regard to incorporeal creatures. Incorporeal creatures have an innate sense of direction and can move at full speed even when they cannot see. | An incorporeal creature moves silently and cannot be heard with Awareness checks if it doesn't wish to be. It has no Strength score, so its Dexterity modifier applies to both its melee attacks and its ranged attacks. Non-visual senses, such as scent and blindsight, are either ineffective or only partly effective with regard to incorporeal creatures. Incorporeal creatures have an innate sense of direction and can move at full speed even when they cannot see. | ||
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| + | ===Lifelike=== | ||
| + | The Lifelike subtype is applied generally to Constructs or Undead creatures to remove some of their type-based traits and make them more like Humanoids, Animals, and other living creatures. | ||
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| + | A Lifelike creature has the following traits: | ||
| + | *If the base creature has type-based immunities, these are reduced to a resistance. A Lifelike creature does not possess the type-based immunities of its parent type or any subtypes it possesses: instead, it only gains a +4 racial bonus against any effect its parent type or subtypes (as applicable) would possess. If a type- or subtype-based immunity does not offer a save (such as in the case of critical hits), a Lifelike creature only has a 25% resistance to such effects. | ||
| + | *Lifelike creatures heal at half normal rate and only receive half benefit from ''cure'' spells and other healing provided by magic. | ||
| + | *A Lifelike creature is not destroyed at 0 HP or less, and instead functions identically to a living creature for determining point-of-death and resurrection. | ||
| + | *A Construct Lifelike creature does not receive bonus Hit Points based on size. | ||
| + | *Lifelike creatures only eat, sleep, or breathe if their parent types or subtypes also do so. | ||
===Native=== | ===Native=== | ||
A subtype applied only to outsiders. These creatures have mortal ancestors or a strong connection to the Material Plane and can be ''raised, reincarnated'', or ''resurrected'' just as other living creatures can be. Creatures with this subtype are native to the Material Plane (hence the subtype's name). Unlike true outsiders, native outsiders need to eat and sleep. | A subtype applied only to outsiders. These creatures have mortal ancestors or a strong connection to the Material Plane and can be ''raised, reincarnated'', or ''resurrected'' just as other living creatures can be. Creatures with this subtype are native to the Material Plane (hence the subtype's name). Unlike true outsiders, native outsiders need to eat and sleep. | ||
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| + | ===Psionic=== | ||
| + | Any creature with psionic powers has the psionic subtype. A psionic creature can be born with the subtype or can gain the subtype during its life. | ||
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| + | A creature meeting any one of the following criteria has the psionic subtype: | ||
| + | * Creatures with a power point reserve, including characters who have levels in a character class that grants them a power point reserve or creatures who have the Wild Talent feat. | ||
| + | * Creatures with psi-like abilities, including characters who have racial psi-like abilities. | ||
| + | * Creatures that have spell-like abilities described as "psionics." | ||
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| + | '''Mindless Psionic Creatures''' | ||
| + | A psionic mindless creature, although rare, is a force to be reckoned with. | ||
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| + | Because mindless creatures are immune to mind-affecting effects (including charms and compulsions), they are particularly threatening to other psionic creatures and characters (especially telepaths). Psionic mindless creatures can use mind-affecting powers on the living, even though they themselves are immune to such attacks. However, a mindless creature may have the psionic subtype if it meets the criteria described above, and thus be vulnerable to non-mind-affecting powers or effects that specifically affect psionic creatures. Intelligent constructs and plants share this advantage. | ||
===Racial=== | ===Racial=== | ||
