IFT: TYPE() function question and also automation

[Farnaby]

One of the new monsters in the new module The Slithering has a nice ability namely choosing a creature type (animal, celestial or humanoid)
and adding 1d10 damage of the weapon damage type.

So the automation is

Effect: IFT: TYPE(humanoid); DMG: 1d10 piercing

The creature targets itself and applies the effect to itself.
Just noticed adding [SELF] at the end of the effect negates my previous sentence.

And here I found 2 conundrums.

1) The players don't have a TYPE tag. Now how do I apply the extra damage to the players?

2) The creature also can attack with jaws. How do I differentiate between natural and weapon attacks?
I guess I can turn off the effect manually.

Any suggestions are welcome.

[Moon Wizard]

In 5E, the "race" field is parsed to look for creature type and subtype information (while the NPC uses the "type" field). If a creature type isn't specified (i.e. one of "aberration", "beast", etc.); then the default type is assumed ("humanoid"). So, most PCs end up with a "humanoid" type, and a racial subtype ("elf", "dwarf", etc.)

I'm guessing that the PF2 ruleset might have something similar, but we'll have to wait for Trenloe to answer.

Regards,
JPG

[Trenloe]

1) The TYPE tag checks the traits of either NPCs or PCs.

2) You can't differentiate between weapon or natural attacks with an effect.

[Farnaby]

Double Post

[Farnaby]

IFT.jpg
As you can see here the first damage is against a PC who is a dwarf and (hangs head in shame) yes, I found the PC traits field. It says Dwarf Humanoid.
The effect is not applied. But it is applied to the hill giant.
IFT2.jpg.png

[Farnaby]

Please don't ask me why, but I was working on something else and came back to look again and without changing anything it's now working.