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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 5971687" data-attributes="member: 57383">Well Freyar and I added our first batch of 10 monsters to the Creature Catalog.It seems appropriate to let our "In Memorium" postings remain in situ and not add any more monsters until at least the weekend, in honour of Shade.* * * While posting our first batch we've discovered a few problems with the CC editor which mean we can't correct 3.5 edition creatures or dragons once we've posted them, except by deleting the whole thing and re-entering the stats as a new creature.Which is a bit of a pain, needless to say.We can still edit templates without any difficulty, so I'm planning to post a batch of Lycanthropes next, since I can edit their template entries to update their stats and/or fix any mistakes we find.How's this for a list:<a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/5489265-post143.html" target="_blank">Lycanthrope, Dire (includes Dire Werewolf)</a><a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/5814893-post246.html" target="_blank">Lycanthrope, Werebadger</a> (Standard & Dire) <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/5748208-post377.html" target="_blank">Lycanthrope, Werebison</a> <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/5440049-post115.html" target="_blank">Lycanthrope, Werecamel</a> <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/5815280-post470.html" target="_blank">Lycanthrope, Wereleopard</a> <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/5623483-post184.html" target="_blank">Lycanthrope, Werelion</a> (Standard & Dire) <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/5455464-post122.html" target="_blank">Lycanthrope, Weresheep</a><a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/5489265-post143.html" target="_blank">Lycanthrope, Weresmilodon (includes Sabrelord)</a><a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/5689469-post208.html" target="_blank">Lycanthrope, Weresloth</a> (Tree, Ground & Giant)<a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/5742394-post228.html" target="_blank">Lycanthrope, Wereweasel</a> (Standard & Dire)That's a nice round 10 templates if we count the variants as one entry, or 15 templates if I post the Weresloths and Dire versions of the Werebadger, Werelion and Wereweasel as separate templates.Do you favour keeping the Sloths and Dires together, or separating them out?The current "<a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/5489265-post143.html" target="_blank">Dire Lycanthrope</a>" template has both a Weresmilodon and Dire Werewolf in it, but I'd like to make the Weresmilodon a separate entry, for three reasons:Firstly, the Dragon 40 article a lot of these weres came from called its Dire Werewolf a "Weredire", so making the Dire Lycanthrope template's sample creature a Dire Wolf seems appropriate.Secondly, the SRD already has a lycanthrope which uses a Dire Wolf as the base animal - the Wolf Lord - so it seems less desirable to separate out the Dire Werewolf conversion.Thirdly, I've recently come across a "Were-Sabretooth" in one of the BECMI Hollow Earth setting and I'd like to mention that as a variant of the Weresmilodon, which would read more cleanly if said kitty-kat was separate from the Dire Lycanthrope template.So, what do you lot think?</blockquote>

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