Hungry Little Monsters - Archetypes

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     For the purpose of these definitions, a creature that is part-animal and part-humanoid is classified as a mutant humanoid rather than a mutant animal. Thus, you'll find centaurs, minotaurs, and nagas listed under mutant humanoid. Likewise, part-insect/part-humanoid creatures (like driders) are classified as mutant humanoids.

     Corpse: A generally-humanoid  undead-looking creature that is not ghostly.  Examples: bodak, devourer, ghast, ghoul, lich, mohrg, mummy, skeleton, vampire, vampire spawn, wight, zombie.
     Dragon: Any generally reptilian creature that has a draconic shape, often with wings. Examples: basilisk, behir, chimera, dinosaur, dragon, dragonne, hydra, pseudodragon, wyvern.
     Elemental: A creature composed of raw elemental substance (generally air, earth, fire, or water), often in a roughly humanoid shape.  Examples: air elemental, belker, earth elemental, fire elemental, invisible stalker, magmin, thoqqua, water elemental.
     Fiend: A humanoid or mutant humanoid creature with monstrous features and batlike wings.  Examples: babau demon, balor demon, barbed devil,  bearded devil, bone devil, gargoyle, harpy (bat-winged 3E version), homunculus, horned devil, ice devil, imp devil, mephit, pit fiend devil, quasit demon, vargouille, vrock demon.
     Giant: A humanoid-shaped creature of great size.  Examples: athach, ettin, clay golem, cloud giant, djinni, efreeti, fire giant, flesh golem,  frost giant, glabrezu demon, hezrou demon, hill giant, iron golem, marut inevitable, nalfeshnee demon, nightwalker, ogre, ogre mage, shield guardian, stone giant, stone golem, storm giant, titan, troll.
     Humanoid: Any creature the approximate shape of a humanoid with two arms, two legs, and an upright posture, with or without wings. More monstrous creatures of this type are classified as fiends or as mutant humanoids. Examples: aasimar, azer, bralani eladrin, bugbear, chain devil, derro, dryad, erinyes devil, ghaele eladrin, goblin, grimlock, hag, hobgoblin, jann, kolyarut inevitable, kobold, nymph, orc, sprite, succubus demon, tiefling.
     Insectoid: An insect-like creature with a hard outer carapace instead of an internal skeleton.  Examples: ankheg, aranea, bebilith, chuul, formian, ice devil, phase spider, rast, remorhaz, retriever demon, rust monster, spider eater.
     Mutant Animal: A creature that resembles a normal Earth animal except for some exaggerated feature, altered shape, or special ability.  Examples: achaierai, arrowhawk, blink dog, bulette, chimera, cloaker, cockatrice, couatl, darkmantle, destrachan, digester, dinosaur, dire animal, displacer beast, dragonne, frost worm, girallon, gorgon, grick, griffon, hellcat devil, hell hound, hippogriff, howler, hydra, kraken, krenshar, manticore, nightmare, nightcrawler, nightwing, owlbear, pegasus, purple worm, ravid, sea cat, shadow mastiff, shocker lizard, stirge, tarrasque, tojanida, unicorn, winter wolf, worg, yeth hound, yrthak,
     Mutant Humanoid: A humanoid-shaped creature (or part-humanoid) with one or more significant physical alterations that make it more than just an odd-looking human. Bat-winged monstrous-looking humanoids should be listed in the Fiend category. Extremely large creatures of this type should be listed in the Giant category. Examples: avoral guardinal, barghest, centaur, choker, doppelganger, dretch demon, drider, ettercap,  gnoll, gray render, harpy (bird-winged classical version), hound archon, lamia, lammasu, leonal guardinal, lemure devil, lillend, lizardfolk, locathah, marilith demon, medusa, merfolk, minotaur, naga, rakshasa, sahuagin, salamander, satyr, skum, sphinx, squidheads, triton, troglodyte, xill, zelekhut inevitable.
     Ooze: A creature without a rigid form, often somewhat amorphous. Examples: black pudding, chaos beast, gibbering mouther, gelatinous cube, gray ooze, ochre jelly, lemure devil, mimic, phasm.
     Plant: A plantlike creature, whether fungal or leafy. Examples: assassin vine, phantom fungus, shambling mound, shrieker, tendriculos, treant, violet fungus.
     Spirit: A generally-humanoid undead creature that exists as a spirit without a body.  Examples: allip, ghost, shadow, spectre, wraith.