Locate Creature

[Snowywerewolf]

Reads as follows:
"The spell can locate a creature of a specific kind or a specific creature known to you. It cannot find a creature of a certain type. To find a kind of creature, you must have seen such a creature up close (within 30 feet) at least once."

My question, then, is what is the difference between "type" and "kind"? Can you look for, say, a human? Can you look for a native outsider (which seems like the natural choice for a "type")?

In specific, one of my players would like to use the spell to find fellow changelings, in which case I would wonder whether to narrow it down more (blood hag changeling, sea hag changeling, green hag changeling).

[Jeraa]

Type would refer to creature type like Humanoid, Outsider, Aberration, Undead, and so on. Most likely includes subtypes as well, like Outsider (Native).

Kind would be like human, elf, gnome, dog, zombie, etc.

[Saethori]

Type: "a category of people or things having common characteristics."
Kind: "a group of people or things having similar characteristics."
... ... ...well, I'd say that clears it up! ><

Actually, reading it again, I think by type it means creature type, as in the game term. So you can choose to look for Changelings because they are a kind of creature, but you could not look for all humanoids. Similarly, you can look for ghouls, but not all undead.

...though isn't that a little backwards? I mean, it can find narrower subsets but not the broad ones?