Favorite Template?


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Four Horsemen from GR Advanced Beastiary. Why settle for just one creature when you can get 4 for the price of one? ;)
 

Blood Knight - Advanced Bestiary
Eldritch - Monsternomicon
Evolved Undead - Libris Mortis
Iron Lich - Monsternomicon
Living Wall - Dragon Magazine
Necromental - Libris Mortis
Stone Idol - Advanced Bestiary
Swarm Shifter - Libris Mortis
 

Amalgam
Tauric
Ablative [modified version anyway]
Swarm Shifter

Probably four of the main ones I've used that I've enjoyed the most.
 


Wild Cohort. It's not a template, but it has solved my advancing animal needs. (I hate the advancement rules!)

Sean K Reynold's Fleshbound vampire, WotC's multi-headed template, the Monster of Legend (check the CR!), "stony monster" template (from Underdark) and Arachnoid templates are also pretty cool.
 


The insect scion from Bodies and Souls is the only template I have seen with multiple options and a good method of CR increase determination.

The mindbender/non-euclidian- a must for CoC style creatures as well as physics lab accidents in Gamma World.

The half humanoid from the 3.0 verson of the Deluxe Book of Templates. ~10 pages of suggestions on how to mix humanoids with oozes, vermin and anything else. I was not happy to see most of it cut in the 3.5 version.

Stonebones curse from Shaping the Self. This nifty little pdf has the idea of leveled templates and a much more interesting set of racial levels than both UA and AU.

Oxeph host from Template Troves- an illithid like creature that is a slave to the aboleth.

Waterscale from TT II- what can I say, I like water nagas (and nagas in general) and wish there was more out about them.

Pick just about anything from TT III- too many to mention.
 

Elemental templates from 3.0 Book of Templates (the original, not the deluxe one).

Best elemental templates I've seen, no breath weapons, smites, or spell abilities, just appropriate elemental traits and powers.

For WotC sources alone, hmm, 3.5 lycanthrope. Fixed a lot of problems with the 3.0 version and made it much more straightforward to implement. D20 modern vampire is a nice improvement on the standard D&D vamp too. Oh and the shade small template from tome of magic is nifty and real easy to add on.
 


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