Editing Monsters (section)

==Families==
Monster groupings within the games began with the first ''[[Dragon Quest Monsters]]'' spin-off, which standardized the notion that each monster belonged to a larger family akin to real life animals. This concept would be added into the mainline games with ''VII'' via the [['The Big Book of Beasts']], which was expanded upon in ''VIII'' to include the families seen in the ''Monsters'' spin-off games. This cemented the following 15 families as the series standard:
*[[??? family]]
*[[Aquatic family]]
*[[Beast family]]
*[[Bird family]]
*[[Bug family]]
*[[Demon family]]
*[[Dragon family]]
*[[Elemental family]]
*[[Humanoid family]]
*[[Machine family]]
*[[Material family]]
*[[Nature family]]
*[[Slime family]]
*[[Undead family]]

There is also the [[Metal slime family]] and [[Floating "family"]] that are not officially recognized as distinct groups, but showcase distinct traits in each appearance.