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[whatisitgoodfor]

Has anyone given thought to creating a book dedicated to template monsters?

I started thinking about this the other night when one of my DM's was complaining about how much prep time a game required. Specifically, he was complaining about how much extra time was required if he wanted to include a vampire, lich, werewolf, or Dragon (yes, they really are template creatures).

It seems to me that the book would be somewhere between Enemies and Allies and a MM. About a 100 - 150 pages in length, with 1 page devoted to what ramifications there are to having a creature with that template in the game, as either an NPC or PC, followed by two pages or so for each version of the critter, representing the creature at several different ages (read CRs).


Well, has anyone else thought about it?

 

[Crothian]

It's a n interesting thought, but are there really that many types of templates? It'd have to have plenty of new templates, not just a rehash of all the current ones. I guess that many of the undead creatures could (and maybe should) become templates. And I guess tyou could have a thousand half-something templates, but I think that'd get rather boring.

 

[whatisitgoodfor]

Well, there are roughly 12 different dragons (chromatic, metallic, and gem), along with all the types of undead (lets call this 15) and then the lycanthropes (8). That should be about all of them, but assuming about 4 pages for each one, that gives 140 pages.

Yeah, it wouldn't be a very entertaining book, but then neither was the MM, or any other book along those lines.