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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sejs" data-source="post: 1753352" data-attributes="member: 4910">I've used the half-creature templates, and as stated above no they're not just representative of a "papa schtupped a base creature" situation.  I've used NPCs that were half-ogres with the half-dragon (bronze) template, both of whose parents were likewise half bronze dragon half-ogres, and likewise back for as many generations as they could remember.  I've used the half-fiend template (minus the wings) to represent the effects of someone being possessed by a very powerful demon.  I've used the fiendish and half-earth elemental templates to represent the result of a badguy's chimerization experiments that he performed on his own nephew (in a blatant ripoff of Slayers.. *cough*).  I've used the half-fiend template on an advanced night hag, to represent a particular outer planar entity - she never had any parents, at one point she just came into being just the way she was.So on and so forth.  Templates are just lego bricks.  What you make out of them is totally up to the DM.</blockquote>