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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crothian" data-source="post: 2619188" data-attributes="member: 232">Book of Templates Deluxe Edition 3.5[imager]http://www.goodman-games.com/images/GMG4340CoverLarge.jpg[/imager]    Sometimes it feels like I have reviewed a book before.  But rarely is it this true.  In fact I have in one way of looking at it reviewed this book twice before.  The first time was when it was just the Book of Templates and then the second time when it became the Book of Templates Deluxe.  Now it is the Book of Templates Deluxe 3.5 Edition and with each change it has gotten a great improvement and been one of the most used books at my gaming table. It is really cool to see such a great book finally come out in print as well as PDF like the first two were.  Silverthorne Games and Goodman games should be very proud of this book and it has to be rare if not unique for a non core gaming book to get three releases with two significant improvements over the original which was a very solid and useful book in its own right.      Book of Templates 3.5 Deluxe Edition is a great looking hardbound book.  It is one hundred and ninety two pages long and all black and white.  The layout is well done with many table for the templates and also rules for helping the DM improve monsters.  The pictures are nicely done depicting some strange new creatures to show some of the example creatures created with the templates in here.      The book is very well organized with templates grouped with who they can be used for.  If one needs a template for an undead there is a chapter filled with undead templates.  The same goes for plants, animals, constructs, and other creature types.  There is also one large chapter on templates that can pretty much be applied to any creature.  Some of the chapters only have a single template like the plant chapter but all templates do have an example creature making this book partially a very different monster manual.      The book starts off strong with a chapter on applying the templates and modifying the creatures.  The book is useless if people do not understand how to use the material and the book does a nice job of taking a person through the steps and considerations when doing so.  There are tables for the different creature types, how to handle size increases and decreases, ways that challenge rating can be modified, working with level adjustments for players, and other key things that people will need.      The book is filled with interesting templates as one might imagine.  One of the interesting ones is the Fallen.  It is a template to be applied to Outsiders, more specifically good Outsiders that have well fallen to the evil side of things.  There is the Degenerate Template that represents a creature in isolation or part diet that weakens a bit but becomes more unpredictable of its kind.  There is the Metalvore template that represents a creature that eats metals much to the fear of fighters and clerics everywhere.  I really like the example creature they use applying this template to a bulette.  I also really like the picture of this thing as well.  There are pages and pages of interesting possibilities and cool ideas in this book.       This is a book that I and lots of other people get a lot of use of.  The only comparable book is the Advanced Bestiary by Green Ronin which is another nice collection of templates.  I do use the Book of Templates more though.  But in reality both are very important in my quest for new and unique creatures to make my players lives more interesting and deadly.  This book has a PDF and book version making it very versatile coming in the format the person will find most useful.  This is a great book and about as close to a must have in the realms of fantasy d20 game books as we see.</blockquote>

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