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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Spatula" data-source="post: 5641254" data-attributes="member: 2198">Most templates are useless, as they promote the monster to elite but generally don't give extra attacks, damage, or countermeasures. They are rather poorly designed, IMO. In addition, making the base monster elite is limiting in terms of encounter design.Now that I think about it, they might be useful to add to normal monsters if you kept the end result as a normal monster (ignoring the HP and defense boosts). For example, a "half-dragon" template could be: add the dragonborn racial power and add a clumsy flight speed. You could also promote the creature to elite, but that's a separate issue, and you have to give it some at-will multi-attack capabilities in that case.And if the base monster was already elite or solo, you have to incorporate the new abilities into its action economy somehow.</blockquote>