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Template Booster
The Open Game License presents a way for writers to use items from different sources but few do that. The possibility and creativity that can unlock in the many cool templates and combine items that might not easily fit together. Template Boosters is one of those rare items that combines items from different books and brings them together in a creative way. The book mainly does this with a single template applied to different monsters to make new creatures to fit in the central theme. The book also has new feats and spells.
Template Booster is another PDF by Reality Deviant Publishing and written by Mark Gedak. The twenty one page PDF comes in a print and on screen version. The layout and art are fine though the monsters names needed to be a larger or different color font. It is not always visually obvious when a new monster starts.
The book starts with a simple idea and a new incantation. The incantation Maddening Torture allows a high level caster to permanently alter a creature. The incantation has some nasty repercussions and is pretty evil to use but if successfully will apply the Blasphemous Terror template to the creature.
The first creature is the Blasphemous Terror Blink Dog. In addition to giving the creature full stats the author goes into its own ecology recognizing that this new creature is very different from what it once was. There is also a section on how to use it in ones game as well as a new feat called Ethereal Strike.
The book goes on to present other new creatures using the template: Church Grim, Dragon Horse, Hippocampus, Lammasu, and Androsphinx. Each of the creatures is also written up fully and making it presented at a new kind of monster. Each one is well defined and interesting. I like the way the template is added and really redefines the way these monsters are.
The book also has a few other items in it like the Sword of Justice. It is an artifact of great power for the right person that welds the sword. There is a planar gate key that appears as a dog’s collar. I like the planar items and always enjoy seeing a bit of new stuff that expands the area.
Template Boosters sets out to take a template and apply it to a few creatures and through that give the reader new and unique creatures. It does that and by basing it all off an incantation really brings it all together in a useable way. This is one of the few products on monsters that has a ready to use in game explanation of where all the new creatures comes from. The ecologies are well written and make the creatures easy to use as more then just something to kill. Too many monster books just see monsters that way and while this does not take them quite far enough for plenty of other uses it has the start of that.
The Open Game License presents a way for writers to use items from different sources but few do that. The possibility and creativity that can unlock in the many cool templates and combine items that might not easily fit together. Template Boosters is one of those rare items that combines items from different books and brings them together in a creative way. The book mainly does this with a single template applied to different monsters to make new creatures to fit in the central theme. The book also has new feats and spells.
Template Booster is another PDF by Reality Deviant Publishing and written by Mark Gedak. The twenty one page PDF comes in a print and on screen version. The layout and art are fine though the monsters names needed to be a larger or different color font. It is not always visually obvious when a new monster starts.
The book starts with a simple idea and a new incantation. The incantation Maddening Torture allows a high level caster to permanently alter a creature. The incantation has some nasty repercussions and is pretty evil to use but if successfully will apply the Blasphemous Terror template to the creature.
The first creature is the Blasphemous Terror Blink Dog. In addition to giving the creature full stats the author goes into its own ecology recognizing that this new creature is very different from what it once was. There is also a section on how to use it in ones game as well as a new feat called Ethereal Strike.
The book goes on to present other new creatures using the template: Church Grim, Dragon Horse, Hippocampus, Lammasu, and Androsphinx. Each of the creatures is also written up fully and making it presented at a new kind of monster. Each one is well defined and interesting. I like the way the template is added and really redefines the way these monsters are.
The book also has a few other items in it like the Sword of Justice. It is an artifact of great power for the right person that welds the sword. There is a planar gate key that appears as a dog’s collar. I like the planar items and always enjoy seeing a bit of new stuff that expands the area.
Template Boosters sets out to take a template and apply it to a few creatures and through that give the reader new and unique creatures. It does that and by basing it all off an incantation really brings it all together in a useable way. This is one of the few products on monsters that has a ready to use in game explanation of where all the new creatures comes from. The ecologies are well written and make the creatures easy to use as more then just something to kill. Too many monster books just see monsters that way and while this does not take them quite far enough for plenty of other uses it has the start of that.
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