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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Duke Frinn" data-source="post: 1128149" data-attributes="member: 10348">I don't know birthright either...I think that templates could have a different purpose than class levels. With a template, a DM could easily create a location with themes that would normally require tweaking dozens of rules.For example, a DM who wants to create a city known for it's magical streams of lava originating in the plane of fire and for it's great azer blacksmithes would normally have to make up some stats - how the magic affects skill checks in the city, availibility of magic items, prices, population.With a planetouched template (plane of fire) and a specialty profession template (blacksmith) you can do all this in a minute.Classes are better as a way to show progress over a stretch of time. This makes it actually more complicated to create a large city quickly, since you need to assign levels, feats, skills.It would make it easier though to see where the city is going in the future.I think the template idea is has more uses, because it takes decades or even centuries for a city to really change, while a character usually rises from level 1 to level 20 in less than 10 years. It just won't impact the game enough.Templates, however, would be a welcome help in the rule-managment of diverse cities, since these templates, if created correctly, could be very "loose". The planetouched template and the specialty profession template could create...* A dwarven city where gemcutters manage to marvels with the magical earth-planetouched soil.* A human village where magnificant celestial silk is woven by a divine process.* A forest where shipmaker gnomes have learned the secrets of creating Air ships.The Glorious template combined with the Deserted template could create...* An elven city of bygone days, where sad songs of ancient wonders are now sung.* A proud city of humans, the capital of an empire pillaged by barbarians.... and so on and so forth...</blockquote>

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