How do I tell who's a fey or fiend??

[Amplifier]

Some abilities give me a boost against these creature types? But how do I know what the creature is???

I've tried right clicking --> Examine but in the window popup there's never any indication either of whether the enemy is fey, friend, aberrations or whatev

[Pat Fenis]

right click - examine

https://steamcommunity.com/id/smokeymcdope420/screenshot/2456223100432036606/

[Amplifier]

Originally posted by Pat Fenis:

right click - examine

https://steamcommunity.com/id/smokeymcdope420/screenshot/2456223100432036606/

Does it indicate fey/fiends though? So far all I've seen are the diff races shown in the examine window. Like in your example, what is 'construct' supposed be then...? fey or fiend?

[KRON]

Originally posted by OK:

Originally posted by Pat Fenis:

right click - examine

https://steamcommunity.com/id/smokeymcdope420/screenshot/2456223100432036606/

Does it indicate fey/fiends though? So far all I've seen are the diff races shown in the examine window. Like in your example, what is 'construct' supposed be then...? fey or fiend?

There's fey, there's fiend and there's construct. Those are all separate creature types.

[Pat Fenis]

That's where it would display if it were a fiend or whatever. Fey are very rare, the only ones I can think of are the Druid summon, Ethyl, and her redcaps. Fiends are more abundant but still not common. Examples would be the enemies on the nautiloid, Raphael, warlock quasit and imp summons.

[Meowella]

Aberration - creatures who are 'alien' to the normal humanoid style creatures you meet. A Beholder is a good example (giant floating eyeball with eyestalks)
Beast - animal creatures like giant turtles or snakes.
Celestial - good aligned creatures from other planes. Includes Angels.
Construct - Artificial lifeforms of non-living elements like golems or animated armour.
Dragon - breathes on you for damage or other effects, loves treasure.
Elemental - creatures from the various elemental planes and are usually attuned to a single element (like Xorn who eat gems and are from the elemental plane of earth)
Fey - Nature-based life from another plane who are generally good aligned but often chaotic. Faeries or Centaur.
Fiends - Evil creatures from other planes. Devils (lawful) and Demons (chaotic) are in this category.
Giant - big humanoids like Ogres.
Humanoid - us! and elves, dwarves, goblins etc.
Monstrosity - scarier beasts who are kinda beasts but not quite - like Minotaurs.
Ooze - slimes and other liquidy creatures with no fixed shape.
Plant - venus fly traps!
Undead - in your heaaaaad, in your heeeeadddd, zombie zombie!

In Bg3 terms mostly worry about Smite Evil being better against Fiends and Undead - so devils, demons etc. With subclass getting bonuses vs Fey I'm not sure quite how many fey there are you need to kill tbh as Fey often aren't hostile.

[Mike Garrison]

Originally posted by Meowella:

With subclass getting bonuses vs Fey I'm not sure quite how many fey there are you need to kill tbh as Fey often aren't hostile.

Most fey in the game are hostile, but there are not a lot of them. The hag. Redcaps. Meenlocks. That's about it.

Fiends: merregons, hellsboar, cambions, the orthon -- the majority of fiends you find in the game are in two places: the gauntlet of Shar and Raphael's home.

[Amplifier]

Originally posted by Meowella:

Aberration - creatures who are 'alien' to the normal humanoid style creatures you meet. A Beholder is a good example (giant floating eyeball with eyestalks)
Beast - animal creatures like giant turtles or snakes.
Celestial - good aligned creatures from other planes. Includes Angels.
Construct - Artificial lifeforms of non-living elements like golems or animated armour.
Dragon - breathes on you for damage or other effects, loves treasure.
Elemental - creatures from the various elemental planes and are usually attuned to a single element (like Xorn who eat gems and are from the elemental plane of earth)
Fey - Nature-based life from another plane who are generally good aligned but often chaotic. Faeries or Centaur.
Fiends - Evil creatures from other planes. Devils (lawful) and Demons (chaotic) are in this category.
Giant - big humanoids like Ogres.
Humanoid - us! and elves, dwarves, goblins etc.
Monstrosity - scarier beasts who are kinda beasts but not quite - like Minotaurs.
Ooze - slimes and other liquidy creatures with no fixed shape.
Plant - venus fly traps!
Undead - in your heaaaaad, in your heeeeadddd, zombie zombie!

In Bg3 terms mostly worry about Smite Evil being better against Fiends and Undead - so devils, demons etc. With subclass getting bonuses vs Fey I'm not sure quite how many fey there are you need to kill tbh as Fey often aren't hostile.

Ok, so from what i see, fey and fiends are actually really rare then, and so all those spells that affects fey and fiends are kinda useless most of the time...

[kingonads]

Originally posted by OK:

Some abilities give me a boost against these creature types? But how do I know what the creature is???

I've tried right clicking --> Examine but in the window popup there's never any indication either of whether the enemy is fey, friend, aberrations or whatev

Experience....

[seeker1]

The setting, as said above, is usually a big clue.

Ethel's Redcaps are fey. Pretty much your anti-fey arsenal will be best around her house, and not so much anywhere else.

When you are in Avernus/House of Hope and in the Hells, you can be pretty sure everything you are facing is a fiend. (Even if temporarily disguised as something else like an urchin.)

Two things you want to bring with you to HoH: fire resistance stuff, and anti-fiend stuff.

[TheClosetSkeleton]

Fey's are magical creatures belonging to the feywilds, such as redcaps, hags and pixies.

Fiends are demons, imps and other creatures that belongs to the hells. Note that for a creature to be considered a fiend they need to be of pure birth in the hells, as such tiefling do not count.

It's just one of those categories that you need to just know.

[guard65]

The only thing I can tell you is the game uses TAGS to identify their category. Example: Tagged('FIEND') but it does not show up in examine so you can only guess. Various abilities and spell use this reference to ID them as FIEND for the purposes of effects.