MM2: Fey-Touched Template

The fey'ri are my best example of why I think that more things should have been templates: Someone had to stop and write more than one tyfling.

And, yes; As broad a group as fay (or demons) are, you will need ether a bunch of templates. Or a few `meta-templates' as the half-elementals seem to be.

I understand about how tyflings aren't half-demons; That's fine: where's the template for quarter-deamons? ;-)

As an aside: A lot of PCs I know have the Mark of the Winddukes. They wound up with the half-air-elemental template. But there kids wouldn't get any such traits . . .
 

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I would also love to see that, as well as the omitted Zodar. After seeing the picture, I was so looking forward to seeing the updated stats. Once I had my hands on MM2, I flipped to the back and went from yugoloth to the templates, very disappointing.
 

Personally, I would prefer a Web Enhancement of the original Feytouched (the omitted one) first. Of course, I should admit that I don't have a subscription to Dragon and still want your ideas. So, purely selfish reasons for me.

Anyway, it wouldn't preclude the Dragon article, just allow a small taste first--to get people's mouths wattering.
 

I'm losing my mind.

I swore I actually saw this in publication somewhere, or I'm going insane. I wanted to incoorporate a fey-touched creature in my campain and ended up jimmy-rigging one from a halfing and a grig. The player was satisfied with the balance, but I still trust the 'professionals' better. If anybody knows for sure where I can find this template officially, please let me know. Thanks!
 

Actually.. I really like that way that they did not rely on a template for the Teifling's of some of the other races. Because I think that when you combine a Demon and a Elf, or a Devil and an Elf, you should get something different than if you did the same with a Human..

I like the Fey'ri.. and the orc ones.. I would love to see an equiv Dwarf, Halfling, and well.. even Gnome. I could just see the Dwarf becoming more like an Azer
 


Drakmar said:
Actually.. I really like that way that they did not rely on a template for the Teifling's of some of the other races. Because I think that when you combine a Demon and a Elf, or a Devil and an Elf, you should get something different than if you did the same with a Human..

I like the Fey'ri.. and the orc ones.. I would love to see an equiv Dwarf, Halfling, and well.. even Gnome. I could just see the Dwarf becoming more like an Azer

Your wish is grantsd! The dwarven-fiend is in the MM2. Check out the "durzagon."
 


I'll second everyone who prefer templates for such mixed bloods. Especially not half-blood, but distant descendants of half-bloods, who are thus very close from the base creature with just a little hint of the other ancestor -- that just screams "template" to me.

I was a bit annoyed that only humans did have weirdoes among them -- aasimars, tieflings, genasi... Why no feytouched gnome (compare forest gnomes to wood elves, who're the most faerie-like ?) or genasi halfling with a mephit great-great-great-grandpa ? Because, if feytouched and planetouched are medium-size, they can only be human (who bred with anything in D&D, it would have been faster to make a half-human template...), elf, or orc (dwarves and hobgoblins don't seems to stir much imagination).

I also think a similar template lacks for dragons. Dragontouched or something like that. We have half-dragons, and they're not sterile, are they ?

By the way, the Forlaren will be in Tome of Horrors (and is already in the teaser, next to the fogwarden, flail snail, and flumph).


That said, I'm not averse to particular hybrids treated as races rather than template. Just to show that not everything will be "standard". But a standard is good in order not to have to create a new subrace each time we need a new weirdo. Fey'ri are gold-elf/demons, and we can suppose moon elf/demon would produce something else... Multiply the amount of critters in the various monster books by itself to get the number of crossbreeds you would have to define without the template system. That's an example of very poor implementation, as computer scientist say (and I say it, 'cause I'm one).

Special cases should be an exception made after the template is laid out. Like what the Draegloth is to the standard half-fiend: it's a bit different from a simple drow with the half-fiend template.

In fact, the best way to make such mixed blood race would be to work the templates a bit like the ghost or lich in the MM (or akutsukai and akutenchi in Oriental Adventures): a base template with a list of possible, optional and example special abilities, and the average number that it can get.

Just my two centimes...
 

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