Additional Creature Properties (5e Variant Rule)

Additional Creature Properties

This page is intended to host homebrew properties for creatures to extend their functionality and classification in instances where standard definitions would not be applicable.

Creature Types

Entity

Entities are supernatural creatures from a variety of origins. Entity is much like monstrosity as it is a catch-all term for when a creature does not fit into any other classification, including sometimes even as a creature itself. Unlike monstrosity, entities are usually not organic or even corporal. They are often described as spirits but are not undead, or as supernatural forces given sentience but are not elementals. Most are native to or have their origins on the Material Plane.

Any spells or magical effects that deal with aberrations, undead, fey, and elementals, such as detect evil and good, will also be applicable to entities.

Archon

Archons: where celestials are outsiders from good planes and fiends are outsiders from evil planes, Archons are outsiders from neutral or unaligned planes.

Some examples of Archons would be:

• beings native to the astral plane such as astral dreadnoughts
• some gods or godlike beings, especially ones that aren’t associated with celestials or fiends
• Creatures native to Mechanus or limbo (many of which are archons and at least one other creature type)

Any effect that affects fiends and celestials generally works on Archons as well.

Creature Sizes

Sizeless

A Sizeless creature does not have a defined size. It cannot appear on a battlemap or a grid. Because of their nature, sizeless creatures cannot normally be targeted by attacks or effects except under specific circumstances.

A Sizeless creature's hit die is determined on a case-by-case basis.

Colossal

A Colossal creature towers over buildings and perhaps even entire towns. This is a catch-all size for any creature above Gargantuan size. A colossal creature occupies a space of 40 by 40 feet or larger and has a d100 hit die.

Microscopic

A Microscopic creature exists on a scale smaller than Tiny. Microscopic creatures can exist on a battlemap but occupy virtually no space and cannot normally be targeted. Microscopic creatures have no hit die– if a microscopic creature takes damage from any attack or effect capable of targeting it, it is immediately killed.

See Also

• Size Categories Higher than Gargantuan (5e Variant Rule), for more specifically-defined size categories above gargantuan.

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