[PR Silverthorne] Book of Templates Deluxe - Coming Soon!

[Knightfall]

The half-flumph gets no respe...#!@$!%where-did-you-come-from-help-me-no-don't-not-the-toenail-strippers-I-WAS-JUST-KIDDING!!!!!!#%@#%@#$

--STILLNESS--

Half-flumph... what a great idea!!!

 

[NarlethDrider]

Heavens to murgatroid when is this much awaited book coming out!?!?!

 

[Frilf]

Believe us, we're working the tinker gnomes as hard as we can Expect a June release for the PDF. We need another week or so for final proofs and then a week for layout, depending on how quickly Mr. Reed can get to the project. Then, we go live. Hang in there, murgatroid people!

Cheers!
Ian

 

[Kitsunekaboom]

Here's a question, specifically on templates that change the size. Do the attribute adjustments stack with the attribute adjustments from size changing?

 

[Khur]

Here's a question, specifically on templates that change the size. Do the attribute adjustments stack with the attribute adjustments from size changing?

Yes, and this is explained in the introduction text. So many templates allowed for multiple sizes, it was just better to take any modifications for size out of the templates themselves and let a creature's new size stack with the (sometimes appearing too low) ability modifiers from the template. So, if you made a creature with a template that increased size from Medium-size to Large, and the template also had a +2 Strength modifier, you'd get a net +10 to Strength.

Make sense?

 

[Kitsunekaboom]

Yes it does. One of these days I should probably actually READ these sort of introductions...though that makes the Goblin Half-Troll almost as good as a real troll O_O kinda scary.

 

[Khur]

Smooth as a trolls rump.... er ... wait...

Yes it does. One of these days I should probably actually READ these sort of introductions...though that makes the Goblin Half-Troll almost as good as a real troll O_O kinda scary.

Well, not really (but you're using an older version of the Half-Troll template, probably). If we say a Half-Troll gets +2 to Strength (because full-blooded trolls are only +5 above the average for Large size (they're 23, average is 18), so half of 5 (round down) is +2), and it increases a goblin to Medium-size (from Small), then the half-troll/half-goblin only has a 14 Strength (+2 from the template, +4 from the size change). Looking at the Half-Troll in the upcoming book, it's the half-troll/half-goblin's average Constitution (19) that's really scary, but still not as good as a troll (or half as frightening as how you might have come up with such a monster in a biological sense). Hey, half-troll's should be terrifying monsters!

In the new book, reading the Introduction is essential. Many of the general rules that apply to many templates are put there to save space (so we didn't have to reprint the same rules every time the same thing came up). That way, there is more room for more templates!

 

[NarlethDrider]

You know I really cant wait for this to come out----how long until it comes out? I ask because our friend Knightfall & others have a killer thread going in the creature catalog forums & I have taken on the burden of drawing these woinderful beasties (I needed a project to get me out of my slump)----the first of 'em should be sent to their creators by Friday evening----now I'm wondering how long I have before the deluxe book comes out & I get _really_ behind

Maybe I'm a big geek, but I'm having fun doing this

 

[NarlethDrider]

Dang double post

 

[NarlethDrider]

*tap*.......*Tap*......*TAp*.....*TAP*

Any news from the front when this much anticipated book is coming out?