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Revision as of 10:18, 21 February 2024

Greyhawk creature
Wemic
A wemic as depicted in the 2e Monstrous Manual, illustration by Jeff Butler (1993).
Alignment: Neutral
Size: Large
Type: Monstrous humanoid
Patron Deity: None
First appearance: Monster Cards Set 3

This template is for use in any article about a creature native to the World of Greyhawk™ campaign setting.

Usage

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{{Creature
|name         = 
|image        = 
|caption      = 
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|othername    =
|size         = 
|alignment    = 
|type         = 
|subtype      = 
|patron deity = 
|first        = 
}}
  • Name—only necessary if it differs significantly from the page name
  • Image—if an image of the subject has been uploaded, place the link to it like this: [[File:Example.PNG|250px]].
  • Caption—describe the image briefly. Cite which product the illustration is from and the artist or creator.
  • Othername—if the creature has a different name, list it here. E.g., "noniz"" for halfling or "hueleneaer" for desert centaurs.
  • Size—the typical size category of this type of creature. (usually Small, Medium, Large, etc.)
  • Alignment—the typical alignment of the subject.
  • First—the first appearance of the creature in official published material. Use a wikilink in double braces [[like this]] to link to pages if it is an official Greyhawk source.
  • Patron deity—a particular deity or pantheon which members of the creature's culture may typically favor.
  • Type and Subtype—the general description of the creature using game-terms; Some creatures have further modifiers (subtypes) to describe something which makes them different than others of their type, such as subraces. E.g. Doppelgängers are "humanoid (shapechanger)". Other subtypes include: air, aquatic, chaotic, cold, earth, electricity, evil, incorporeal, fire, good, lawful, reptilian, or swarm.
Types were not specified in 1e and 2e, but were given in 3e, 4e, and 5e.
Fifth edition types include the following:
  • Aberration
  • Beast[note 1]
  • Celestial
  • Construct
  • Dragon
  • Elemental
  • Fey
  • Fiend
  • Giant
  • Humanoid
  • Monstrosity
  • Ooze
  • Plant
  • Undead
Additionally, there may be a "tag" or tags in parentheses after the type, such as humanoid (orc). Place those under the subtype parameter.
The playtest for the iteration of D&D after fifth edition also uses the same creature types.
Fourth edition types for creatures (often with one or more added keywords) are:
  • Animate
  • Beast
  • Humanoid
  • Magical beast
There are also many "keywords"—angel, demon, devil, dragon, giant, undead, reptile, mount, construct, shapechanger, spider, etc. Place these in the subtype parameter.
"Origins" were also used, which were related to particular planes—aberrant, elemental, fey, immortal, natural, shadow (or Shadowfel), and elemental (air, earth, fire, water). Also place these in the subtype parameter.
Third edition types are:
  • Animal[note 1]
  • Aberration
  • Beast[note 1]
  • Construct
  • Dragon
  • Elemental
  • Fey
  • Giant
  • Humanoid
  • Magical beast[note 1]
  • Monstrous humanoid
  • Ooze
  • Outsider
  • Plant
  • Shapechanger[note 2]
  • Undead
  • Vermin
Subtypes for third edition[1][2][3][4][5] include— Air, Angel, Aquatic, Archon, Augmented, Baatezu, Chaotic, Cold, Dragonblood, Earth, Elf, Electricity[note 3]Evil, Extraplanar, Fire, Goblinoid, Good, Incorporeal, Lawful, Living Construct, Native, Obyrith, Orc, Reptilian, Shapechanger,[note 2] Swarm, Tanar'ri, Water, and Yugoloth.

Standard Sections

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You can easily cut and paste them from here (please include the {{index}}) and [[Category: ]]) and delete the ones you don't use:

==Description==

== Personality ==

== Abilities ==

== Possessions ==

== Society ==
=== Religion ===
=== Language ===
=== Relationships ===

==History==

== Rumors and legends ==

==Appendix==

==See Also==

==Appearances==

==Gallery==

== External links ==
{{External link disclaimer}}

==References==
===Citations===
<references />
===Bibliography===
{{index}}

[[Categoy: Creatures]] and/or [[Categorey:Races]]
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[[Category: Greyhawk Characters]]
[[Category: (put category tags like: Wizards, organizations, or locations here, each on a separate line) ]]

References

Notes

  1. a b c d The "beast" type was dropped from third edition in 3.5e, with those creatures either being defined as either an "animal" or "magical beast". In fourth and fifth editions, "beast" is used again and includes essentially the same creatures as "animal".
  2. a b "Shapechanger" is a subtype (in 3.5e) rather than a type (in 3e).
  3. The "(electricity)" subtype was dropped from third edition in v3.5.

Citations

  1. Monster Manual (Oct 2000), p.4.
  2. Monster Manual II (Sep 2002), p.3.
  3. Monster Manual III (Aug 2004), p.7.
  4. Monster Manual IV (Jul 2006), p.221.
  5. Monster Manual V (Jul 2007), p.222.

Bibliography