In the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons, an animal is a creature type. They are living, nonhuman vertebrate creatures with no innate magical abilities or capacity for language or culture. Virtually all animals are based off of real-world animals, instead of fantasy-based creatures, which are often categories in to other groups, especially magical beasts. Animals can never have an intelligence higher than two points under normal rules; any animal that obtains a higher intelligence through some means is recategorized into “magical beast.”