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, aberration is a type of creature, or "creature type

Creature Type (Dungeons & Dragons)

In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, creature types are rough categories of creatures which determine the way game mechanics affect the creature. In the 3rd edition and related games, there are between thirteen and seventeen creature types. Creature type is determined by the...

". Aberrations generally all have bizarre anatomies, strange abilities, alien mindsets, or any combination thereof.

In 3rd edition Dungeons & Dragons, all aberrations have darkvision out to 60 feet. As a group, they have no other special abilities or immunities.

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Dungeons & Dragons

Dungeons & Dragons is a fantasy role-playing game originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, and first published in 1974 by Tactical Studies Rules, Inc. . The game has been published by Wizards of the Coast since 1997...

 4th edition, Aberration was replaced with the Aberrant creature origin.

Aberrations in the Monster Manual (3rd and 3.5 editions)

• Aboleth
  Aboleth
  In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, aboleths are a fictive race of malevolent, eel-like aberrations with potent psionic abilities...
  
  
• Athach
  Athach
  In the Dungeons and Dragons fantasy roleplaying game, an athach is a giant-like aberration.-Publication history:The athach first appeared in the Dungeons & Dragons Master Rules set...
  
  
• Beholder
  Beholder
  The beholder is a fictional monster in the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. It resembles a floating orb of flesh with a large mouth, single central eye, and lots of smaller eyestalks on top with deadly magical powers....
  
  
• Carrion crawler
  Carrion crawler
  In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game, the carrion crawler a type of fictional monster for player characters to encounter. A carrion crawler is described as a large yellow and green wormlike aberration. The carrion crawler was introduced in the game's first supplement, Greyhawk, in 1975...
  
  
• Choker
  Choker (Dungeons & Dragons)
  In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game, the choker is an aberration. It can be used by Dungeon Masters as an enemy or ally of the player characters.-Publication history:...
  
  
• Chuul
  Chuul
  In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game, the chuul is a large, pale yellow, lobster-like aberration with a set of nasty pincers and paralytic tentacles.-Publication history:...
  
  
• Cloaker
  Cloaker
  In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game, the cloaker is a type of fictional monster for player characters to encounter. It is portrayed as being able to disguise its body to resemble a cloak when at rest. The cloaker pacifies victims with an eerie moan, and engulfs its prey within its...
  
  
• Delver
• Destrachan
• Drider
  Drider
  In the Dungeons and Dragons roleplaying game, a drider is an aberration that was formerly a drow . Driders are centaur-like creatures in the game, appearing as drow from the waist up, with their lower portions replaced by the abdomen and legs of immense spiders. They are most commonly found in the...
  
  
• Ethereal filcher
  Ethereal filcher
  In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the ethereal filcher is a bizarre aberration.-Publication history:The ethereal filcher appeared in the third edition Monster Manual , and in the 3.5 revised Monster Manual ....
  
  
• Ettercap
  Ettercap
  An ettercap is one of a race of bestial spider-men aberrations in the Dungeons & Dragons game.-Publication history:The name is derived from the Danish word for spider, edderkop, and is related to attercop, an archaic word for poisonous spider, used in J.R.R...
  
  
• Gibbering mouther
  Gibbering mouther
  In the Dungeons and Dragons fantasy role-playing game, a gibbering mouther is a horrific aberration which feeds on the bodily fluids and "sanity" of its victims...
  
  
• Grick
  Grick
  In the Dungeons and Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the grick is an aberration. A grick resembles a large , darkly colored worm or snake-like creature...
  
  
• Mimic
  Mimic (Dungeons & Dragons)
  In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the mimic is a type of fictional monster for player characters to encounter. It is portrayed as being able to change its shape to disguise its body as an inanimate object, commonly a chest...
  
  
• Mind flayer
  Illithid
  In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, illithids are monstrous humanoid aberrations with psionic powers. In a typical Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting, they live in the moist caverns and cities of the enormous Underdark...
  
   (also known as Illithid
  Illithid
  In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, illithids are monstrous humanoid aberrations with psionic powers. In a typical Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting, they live in the moist caverns and cities of the enormous Underdark...
  
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• Naga
  Naga (Dungeons & Dragons)
  In the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, nagas comprise a variety of similar species of intelligent aberrations with widely differing abilities and alignments. Nagas appear as large snake like creatures with humanoid heads. They often range widely in coloring and scale patterns, but are all...
  
  
• Otyugh
  Otyugh
  In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game, the otyugh , or gulguthra, is a type of fictional monster for player characters to encounter...
  
  
• Phasm
  Phasm
  In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the phasm is an aberration.-Publication history:The phasm appeared in the third edition Monster Manual , and in the 3.5 revised Monster Manual .-Description:...
  
  
• Rust monster
  Rust monster
  A rust monster is a fictional creature from the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game that seeks out and consumes metal, often the armor and weaponry of players' characters...
  
  
• Skum
  Skum
  In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game, the skum is a fish-like aberration.-Publication history:The skum first appeared in second edition in Polyhedron #67...
  
  
• Umber hulk
  Umber hulk
  An umber hulk is a fictional creature in the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game. They are large, bipedal, insectoid aberrations with an ape-like build. The creature has the ability to confuse any creature that sees all four of its eyes at once. They are often found in the Underdark, where they are...
  
  
• Will-o'-Wisp

Aberrations from Monster Manual II

• Avolakia
• Catoblepas
• Darktentacles
• Fihyr
  Feyr
  In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the Feyr, or Fihyr is a fictional monster formed when residual magical energies combine with ordinary nightmares.-Publication history:...
  
  
• Grell
  Grell (Dungeons & Dragons)
  In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the grell is an aberration.-Description:The grell is levitating creature with a body like a giant olive-colored exposed brain the size of a human and with a frontal beak, below which trails ten long pale olive-green tentacles. Grell are usually...
  
  
• Hook Horror
  Hook horror
  In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game, a hook horror is a bipedal, subterranean monster that looks like a vulture-like humanoid with bony hooks in place of hands.-Publication history:...
  
  
• Ixitxachitl
  Ixitxachitl
  In the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, ixitxachitl are a race of intelligent, aquatic beings that resemble small manta rays with barbed tails. They have an evil disposition and worship evil powers...
  
  
• Julajimus
• Meenlock
  Meenlock
  In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game, the meenlock is a type of fictional monster for player characters to encounter.-Publication history:The meenlock first appeared in the original first edition Fiend Folio ....
  
  
• Moonbeast
• Morkoth
  Morkoth
  In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the morkoth is an aberration.-Publication history:The morkoth first appeared in the original Blackmoor supplement ....
  
  
• Neogi
• Nothic
  Nothic
  The nothic is an "aberrant" subterranean monster in the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. It resembles a lanky, hunched, olive-green skinned humanoid with a single, enormous, red, central eye...
  
  
• Psurlon
• Windghost
• Wyste

Aberrations from Monster Manual III

• Harpoon spider
• Lifeleech Otyugh
• Lurking Strangler
• Mindshredder
• Odopi
• Prismatic Roper
• Quaraphon
• Rot Reaver
• Runehound
• Seryulin
• Shrieking Terror
• Stonesinger
• Susurrus

Aberrations in the Fiend Folio

• Ahuizotl
• Chwidencha
• Darkweaver
• Ethergaunt
• Half-Illithid template
• Maulgoth
• Ocularon
• Phiuhl
• Rukanyr
• Skybleeder
• Slasrath
• Spectral Lurker
• Symbionts (Cerebral)
• Tunnel Terror
• Yuan-Ti Anathema

Aberrations in the Expanded Psionics Handbook

• Elan
  Elan (Dungeons & Dragons)
  In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game, the elan is a type of fictional creature for player characters to encounter. Players can also use the elan as a player character race.-Publication history:...
  
  
• Folugub
• Intellect Devourer
• Neolithid
• Temporal Filcher
• Thought Eater
• Thought Slayer

External links

• Aberration – d20
  D20 System
  The d20 System is a role-playing game system published in 2000 by Wizards of the Coast originally developed for the third edition of Dungeons & Dragons...
  
   System Reference Document
  System Reference Document
  The System Reference Document, or SRD, is a set of reference role playing game mechanics licensed under the Open Game License by Wizards of the Coast and based upon their Dungeons and Dragons role-playing game. The SRD forms the basis of WotC's various d20 System role-playing games, including the...
  
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