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<blockquote data-quote="Three_Haligonians" data-source="post: 2718599" data-attributes="member: 19546"><p>Was it.... Ursula? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue :p" data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></p><p></p><p>Seriously though, that's a real cool use of the tauric template (one of my favourites).</p><p></p><p>Let's see what I have (though I must admit, I'm prone to break a few templating rules now and again):</p><p></p><p><strong>Solar Guardian:</strong> (A Saintly Radiant Advanced Quesar of Legend)</p><p> Found in an ancient sun temple guarding an artifact. Since he was just a construct programmed for guard duty, the players didn't want to destroy him and spent a long time trying to find ways to avoid him.</p><p></p><p><strong>The Wendigo:</strong> (A Feral Satyr Wendigo Bard/Icesinger)</p><p> A major antagonist for one of the PCs. Basically, I took the "dark" aspects of nature; violence, death, lust, and winter, and put them together into one force.</p><p></p><p><strong>The Antediluvian:</strong> (A Paragon Vampire/Vampire Lord Wizard)</p><p> A proverbial "first vampire" which was fun since the paragon template was actually applied to the vampire template (yay for meta-templating!)</p><p></p><p><strong>The Ladies of Flame:</strong> (A group of Nymphs with the Fire template)</p><p> I also changed their druid spells known to include every [Fire] spell they could have. One of my players during this game was playing a treant. This encounter was the only time I ever took him down.</p><p></p><p><strong>The Desert Ghost:</strong> (A Half-Iron Golem/Half-Warforged Fighter/Ghost-Faced Killer)</p><p> A professional assassin who was hired to take out one of the party members by his nemesis from his thieves guild days.</p><p></p><p><strong>The Rock Monster:</strong> (An Advanced, Spellwarped Avalancher of Legend)</p><p> What can I say? I needed a tough, random encounter in the mountains and I had just got the MMIII.</p><p></p><p><strong>The Hornless Efreeti:</strong> (An Advanced, Barbarian/Firestorm Beserker Efreeti Revenant)</p><p> Through a funny set of circumstances, one of my players ended up with the severed horn of an Efreeti - who subsequently vowed revenge. Then, through another set of funny circumstances (connected I assure you), the same player ended up with the same Efreeti's other horn. I figured since this made the Efreeti <em>really</em> angry, he'd come back as a revenant for one last round against that PC.</p><p></p><p>I have others that I'm forgetting, and still others I haven't made yet that I'd love to share but my players lurk these boards and I don't want to give them away yet.</p><p></p><p>Oh, I should also mention that in my gaming circle - the art of adding templates is usually referred to as "Vampiric Iron Golems" (and I can't really remember why...). Does anybody else have a such a name, or have you never really thought of it before?</p><p></p><p>J from Three Haligonians</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Three_Haligonians, post: 2718599, member: 19546"] Was it.... Ursula? :p Seriously though, that's a real cool use of the tauric template (one of my favourites). Let's see what I have (though I must admit, I'm prone to break a few templating rules now and again): [b]Solar Guardian:[/b] (A Saintly Radiant Advanced Quesar of Legend) Found in an ancient sun temple guarding an artifact. Since he was just a construct programmed for guard duty, the players didn't want to destroy him and spent a long time trying to find ways to avoid him. [b]The Wendigo:[/b] (A Feral Satyr Wendigo Bard/Icesinger) A major antagonist for one of the PCs. Basically, I took the "dark" aspects of nature; violence, death, lust, and winter, and put them together into one force. [b]The Antediluvian:[/b] (A Paragon Vampire/Vampire Lord Wizard) A proverbial "first vampire" which was fun since the paragon template was actually applied to the vampire template (yay for meta-templating!) [b]The Ladies of Flame:[/b] (A group of Nymphs with the Fire template) I also changed their druid spells known to include every [Fire] spell they could have. One of my players during this game was playing a treant. This encounter was the only time I ever took him down. [b]The Desert Ghost:[/b] (A Half-Iron Golem/Half-Warforged Fighter/Ghost-Faced Killer) A professional assassin who was hired to take out one of the party members by his nemesis from his thieves guild days. [b]The Rock Monster:[/b] (An Advanced, Spellwarped Avalancher of Legend) What can I say? I needed a tough, random encounter in the mountains and I had just got the MMIII. [b]The Hornless Efreeti:[/b] (An Advanced, Barbarian/Firestorm Beserker Efreeti Revenant) Through a funny set of circumstances, one of my players ended up with the severed horn of an Efreeti - who subsequently vowed revenge. Then, through another set of funny circumstances (connected I assure you), the same player ended up with the same Efreeti's other horn. I figured since this made the Efreeti [i]really[/i] angry, he'd come back as a revenant for one last round against that PC. I have others that I'm forgetting, and still others I haven't made yet that I'd love to share but my players lurk these boards and I don't want to give them away yet. Oh, I should also mention that in my gaming circle - the art of adding templates is usually referred to as "Vampiric Iron Golems" (and I can't really remember why...). Does anybody else have a such a name, or have you never really thought of it before? J from Three Haligonians [/QUOTE]
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