Multiple Templates...

[Bodah]

I was wondering if its possible to take multiple templates as long as they arent conflicting with eachother? (sorry dont have my books with me or I'd check on my own)

I mean, its rather obvious some cant work, like half celestial and half fiend. Since that would make it impossible for any room for a base race etc.


What about something like..hmm..say Half Dragon and the Shade template?

 

[Sollir Furryfoot]

It depends on what the template says, you can't stack half-celestial and lycanthrope since half-celestials are immune to diseases, including magical ones (I think) and lycanthropy is a disease. Some templates change a person's type to something other templates can't use.

And also, there was an adventure on the WotC Dungeons and Dragons site that had 2 half-celestial/half-fiend NPCs, that might have been a special case though.

 

[James McMurray]

What adventure was that? Are you sure they weren't half-celestial/half some sort of demon? If they were half-C/half-F, what was their base creature type that all of the modifiers got applied to?

 

[Ferret]

natural lycanthrope

 

[James McMurray]

Ferret, is that a response to Sollir or me?

If its a response to me, then I have to assume you're pulling my leg. I find it hard to believe that WotC would create NPCs with three templates and no base creature.

 

[Dr. Zoom]

Like everyone has been saying, it depends on the template. Some can be combined with others with no problem. Fiendish half-dragons, for example. Others cannot. There is no rules prohibition, though, against having more than one template.

 

[James McMurray]

What about a Fiendish, Anarchic, Multi-headed, Were-tiger, Half-Dragon, Lich (human as the base creature)?

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I forgot Crystalline, and we might as well add demi-lich and perhapd even Worm That Walks too.

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[Dr. Zoom]

I think that's in the MM2, James.

 

[James McMurray]

Yes! Finally something for my players to truly fear! Little did they suspect Acererak's true ancestry!

 

[Tewligan]

What about a Fiendish, Anarchic, Multi-headed, Were-tiger, Half-Dragon, Lich (human as the base creature)?

I would really like to see an illustration of this bad boy.