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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crothian" data-source="post: 2011621" data-attributes="member: 232">Template Troves Serpents Spiders and Godlings    So, what happens when One take a company known for being the mast of Templates and combine it with Sean K Reynolds one of the more creative game designers?  One gets a book like this one.  It is filled with great templates and great ideas.  Templates are one of the most versatile mechanics in the d20 system.  A few templates can take a tired old collection of monsters and turn them into something original and new.  And no one is really making them.  There are books with new feats, skills, prestige classes, and other options in them.  Most books one will find a few of these things in them but very few if any templates.      Template Troves is a PDF by Silverthorne Games.  Silverthorne Games is best know for their Deluxe Book of Templates and the three Races of Evernor books.  Sean K Reynolds is the author and he has written several creatures in the Monster Manual and many things for the Forgotten Realms setting.  The book is forty two pages in length and is a come in an eight and a half meg zip file.  Unzipped the PDF is a little under thirteen megs in size.  There is only one version of the file.  It does have borders and that can make printing a bit of a problem for people.  There is a bit of art in here all black and white.  The art is good and only the cover is in color.  The layout could be a little tighter as there is a little too much white space in some places.  The book is well book marked with the templates, new feats, new monsters, and pretty much everything one would want to find just a simple click away.      There are twenty templates written here.  There is a wide variety here in themes but not in power.  There is only one template that offers a challenge rating or levels adjustment greater then two.  So, these templates change the creature without altering the power level of the creature that much.  There is one new feat, six new monsters, three new spells, and four new treasures.  But the highlight is obviously the templates.      There are templates like the Fenrirrin, descendants of the Fenris Wolf from Norse Mythology.  There is also the Gullinbursten another template inspired by the Norse Mythology.  There are quite a few inspired from mythology templates and while the ideas are pretty cool it just seems that the templates do not go far enough.  The templates add a lot to the flavor of the creatures but needed a more in the terms of power.  The creativity though is defiantly here.      This is a good collection of templates but not as well done as the Deluxe Book of Templates was.  I like the creativity of the product but would have liked to have seen a little more in terms of power.</blockquote>

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