What new species have you created via templates?

Title asks the question.

Some of the ideas I have had so far:

Dimensional horrors (non-euclidean phase spider) hunt wizards and other intelligent beings that go insane from looking at them.

City smashers (war machine megapede with burrow speed) are used by a steam tech using nation to root out its dwarven opponents and to flatten human cities.

Grave hounds (necrovorous worg) are a major problem in nations that use necromancy in organ transplants.

Blood puddles (wretched nocturnal halfling) are sewer dwellers that hide in the water and attack at night.

Mansion guardians (skinrug construct black or brown bear) are all the rage in some cities among the wealthy.

Forest guardians (plantform behir) are used by treants to combat green dragons.

For oldtimers- Formians (half humanoid ants) or centaur ants are a race that attempt to cover the globe in their hives. I never cared for the planar nature of them and this allows me to revert them back.

Kital (amalgam cheeta ogres) chase their prey down on open plains.

To boost the physical danger of ethergaunts, try making them weredragons (black, blue and red).

Living darkness (slithering dreadnaught shadow ooze) are an extreme danger to underground dwellers. Shadow oozes are from Liber Bestiarius.

And to create the leviathan from Disney's Atlantis, take a chuul, apply the gigantic, quickened, warmachine and life spark construct templates in that order then add a lightning attack (10d8+50 seems about right.)

No one has created new critter species with templates?

I once had an adventure that featured:

1 (one) Reptillian Troll. Looked like a really tall, lanky, eeevil lizardman.

1 (one) Reptillian, Multiheaded Centaur. Sort of like a smaller version of the hydra.

1 (one) Gelatinous, Fiendish Giant Constrictor. Looked like this:




It was a fun adventure.

EDIT: To clarify, I presented these as completely new monsters, not hybrids of inter-breeding or magical experiments.

Tsunami said:

EDIT: To clarify, I presented these as completely new monsters, not hybrids of inter-breeding or magical experiments.

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That is exactly what I am looking for. I know someone who dislikes templates and want to show him another use for them.

I like the pic and the creature behind it enough to consider it for a CoC game. Thanks.

Not a new species, but in the last session of my Eberron game I wanted to display a warforged which had been created with certain modifications. So I slapped the benefits of the half-dragon template on it and changed them to mechanical instead of biological. So it had metal claws on its fingers, extra-thick armored skin, and an attached "blaster" which mimicked the half-dragon's breath attack.

Freaked the heck out of my PCs and did some serious damage before going down. The PCs then took some of the stuff off it and ran around trying to find out about it and gave me two new plot hooks which I hadn't even considered. I love uppity PCs

Some new ones I have worked on since last I posted:

Reef slayer (earth elemental troll sans earth glide ability)- these creatures protect the coral they are a part of. The regeneration only works when they stand on the reef.

Serpent's serf (half dragon [minature wyvern amalgam kobold])- These creatures are used by dragons as lair keepers. The individual dragon's serfs can not disobey it.

The next 3 are randomly choosen monsters from the MM and one template from the BOT (DE) and one from AB:

Madness sphinx (savant non-euclidian dragonne)- Not related to the common sphinxes, this creature has even more esoteric knowledge. The catch is that only those not driven mad by it appearance are given answer and those driven mad are eaten.

Pyramid guardian (desiccated holy guardian naga)- Used to protect temples and burial mounds of desert peoples, these good undead creatures are second to none.

Sewer sweeper (puppeteer ooze host fungal otyugh)- The ultimate sewer worker for a city where controlled oozes and their hosts are slaves. These creatures were made to kill monsters and other unpleasant sewer dwellers, consume excess waste (clogs) and collect anything of value lost below the city.

Dragonsteed - Half-Dragon Heavy Warhorse (Gold, Silver or Bronze). Serve mighty paladins. Either treat the paladin as 3 levels lower with regards to the special mount ability, or use the Savage Progressions 3-level set-up done by Sean K Reynolds (over at WotC's site) to allow a 5-th level paladin to gain one, and each time the paladin gains a level, the mount gains more half-dragon levels. It is a horse-shaped dragon, not the spawn of horse and dragon.

That's funny. I used non-euclidian phase spiders in my last campaign, too! Frighteningly effective, let me tell you.

I also had hypermitotic advanced gargantuan spiders in that same game. Scary. Very scary.

I also had divinely infused, advanced choas beasts.

You guys have given me so many ideas.
My players will be freaked out and I will do a happy dance.

Hmm, new species as compared to crossbreeds or mutations or whatnot, eh? The only example I can think of from my campaign would be shadow myconids- mushroom-folk of the shadow-plane, who could hang out in dark places on the prime.