What new species have you created via templates?

I made a creature that was essentially an armor-plated bassilisk with a sting and grab attack (as well as the stone gaze).

I also made a ton of draconic subraces using the half-dragon template. They serve as the primary villains of the campaign I am currently running.

Good stuff!
 

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In my next adventure, I wanted a big, savage dragon to guard a treasure. I didn't want anything intelligent or spellcasting. Just a really, really big dragon. So I slapped the Half-Dragon (Black) template onto a Huge Crocodile, and Bam! Instant Giant Dumb Dragon! I'm calling it a "Skull Dragon," and it's going to hunt down the characters while battling Giant Zombie Apes.

Man... I love Dungeons & Dragons...
 

As I just posted over on oathbound.net, I am thinking of using the clockwork or war machine templates to create a whole "ecosystem" of constructs to populate parts of Wildwood. The lord of that domain loves violently testing cultures against each other and why should he just pay attention to the living? Moss covered construct trolls hunting orcs and ogres though the forest or psychic cyborgs sniffing out and mentally blasting shapechangers.
 


Breakstone said:
In my next adventure, I wanted a big, savage dragon to guard a treasure. I didn't want anything intelligent or spellcasting. Just a really, really big dragon. So I slapped the Half-Dragon (Black) template onto a Huge Crocodile, and Bam! Instant Giant Dumb Dragon! I'm calling it a "Skull Dragon,"

I did the same thing, for a swamp dragon. I used half-Red, though. It worked well :)
 

Breakstone said:
In my next adventure, I wanted a big, savage dragon to guard a treasure. I didn't want anything intelligent or spellcasting. Just a really, really big dragon. So I slapped the Half-Dragon (Black) template onto a Huge Crocodile, and Bam! Instant Giant Dumb Dragon! I'm calling it a "Skull Dragon," and it's going to hunt down the characters while battling Giant Zombie Apes.

Man... I love Dungeons & Dragons...
That is awesome! The visuals, the mood!

Yoinked!
 

Take a medium or large shark, add the amphibious template and give it a wounding bite. This animal attacks creatures next to the water. If the prey runs, the fish walks out of the water and follows the blood trail.

Take a destrachan, reduce it to small, give it the arborial template and the ability to ignore living and dead plant matter, in fact they can never affect it. This allows them to use their sonic attack through trees and yet vulnerable to monsterous plants.
 

DMH said:
Take a medium or large shark, add the amphibious template and give it a wounding bite. This animal attacks creatures next to the water. If the prey runs, the fish walks out of the water and follows the blood trail.

Give it some rogue levels and pump some bluff ranks into it and have it wander around knocking on the doors of random villagers.

"Who is it?"

"Pizza delivery?"

"Pizza delivery? The DM doesn't do anachronisms!"

"Landshark!"

"Oh, yeah, right! Is that you trying to pull my leg again Lenny?"

(Opens door)

(Screaming and gulping sounds follow)

:)

- Psion, dating himself
 

'Kay, what is that from?

I had another idea, one likely to terrify players and PCs:

They are having a typical adventure in a swamp, one with fairly deep water (8-10 feet) and thick groves of cypress. As they travel by boat, they hear of a dragon terrorizing a small village not too far from the town they are in. When they investigate, they see scorch marks on trees that seem to be clustered. When they finally reach the village, an Amphibous behir pops up out of the water and fries their boat(s) with a lightning strike. The swimming PCs have a lot more to worry about than the adult behir as her offspring, thousands of tiny ones are trying to eat them (Creature Swarm). If they escape the swarms and kill the adult, they run into another member of the behir family- the Minature, Arborial behir that uses a sonic attack instead of lightning. After that, they should never want to go into a swamp again.
 

DMH said:
'Kay, what is that from?

I had another idea, one likely to terrify players and PCs:

They are having a typical adventure in a swamp, one with fairly deep water (8-10 feet) and thick groves of cypress. As they travel by boat, they hear of a dragon terrorizing a small village not too far from the town they are in. When they investigate, they see scorch marks on trees that seem to be clustered. When they finally reach the village, an Amphibous behir pops up out of the water and fries their boat(s) with a lightning strike. The swimming PCs have a lot more to worry about than the adult behir as her offspring, thousands of tiny ones are trying to eat them (Creature Swarm). If they escape the swarms and kill the adult, they run into another member of the behir family- the Minature, Arborial behir that uses a sonic attack instead of lightning. After that, they should never want to go into a swamp again.

LOL! I love it! :D
 

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