Questions tagged [character-templates]
Character templates are a mechanic in the D&D series of games for overlaying new mechanical and narrative trappings upon a character (PC, NPC, or monster).
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Are there any size-increasing templates for Aberrations?
Looking for a template to increase the size of a Runehound (Monster Manual III). It can get to Large just by increasing its HD naturally, but I'd like to reach Huge. Are there any templates to ...
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Was the Multiheaded Creature template ever updated to 3.5?
Before I use the Multiheaded Creature template in Savage Species, I want to make sure there isn't a more recent version somewhere that would supersede it. Is there?
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Seeking Clarification: Necropolitan Template
I'm planning to start building my human character from level 1 with the intention of becoming "necropolitan" and "evolved undead". Naturally, given the requirements of the "...
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Clarification Needed: Independence of Level Adjustment in 'Symbiotic' Template Selection
I'm considering creating a Wizard character using the 'Symbiotic' template. However, I have a question about the mechanic:
As I understand it, for just a +1 Level Adjustment (LA), the character gains ...
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Can a warforged become a vampire?
As it says in the title: Can a Warforged (Monster Manual III, P190-191, 215, Eberron Campaign Setting, P20-24) become a vampire or vampire spawn?
My research shows that a living construct type is ...
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Is an Eldritch Emissary's Antimagic Susceptibility(Su) suppressed by an AMF?
I had a conceptual itch that the Eldritch Emissary* template happened to scratch perfectly, except for on little thing: Antimagic Susceptibility
Antimagic Vulnerability (Su): Because an
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If a player gets Lycanthropy, does it start immediately? Or does it take a while?
If my players were fighting a werewolf and one of them got bit and failed the con save, would they instantly be able to transform? Or would they have to wait a while?
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Ways to benefit from Warshaper without losing my base form
I am looking at building a character with monstrous hit die and at least one level adjustment. This character focuses heavily on natural weapon attacks and I would like to include the Warshaper class (...
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Does a dark tiefling need to eat?
Tieflings are Outsider (Native), which means they're native to the Material Plane. ToM's Dark Creature template makes a creature extraplanar when not on the Plane of Shadow.
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Can you Wild Shape into a beast with the half-dragon template?
In D&D 5e, Half-Dragon is a template (MM, 180) that can be applied to any beast, humanoid, or giant. When I applied the Red Dragon Wyrmling's dragon breath - which deals 7d6 fire damage in a cone -...
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Can the half-dragon template have a negative impact on fly speed?
First example: A half-dragon astral deva. Astral devas normally have wings, but they're Medium, and the Half-Dragon template states that Medium half-dragons don't have wings. Does the Astral deva lose ...
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How many primary/secondary attacks does a voidmind half-illithid/half-farspawn get?
Leaving aside how template stacking makes it unclear what the actual race/base creature should be--being half-illithid gives a creature four tentacles; being half-farspawn gives it up to four more, ...
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Site with absurdly powerful characters for D&D 3/3.5 [closed]
A good ten years ago a friend of mine told me about a site somewhere where absurdly powerful characters for D&D 3/3.5 were listed, with detailed level-by-level character progression.
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How to create a Titanic Creature?
The Monster Manual 2 gives us the Titanic template. This is a template that can be added to any medium or smaller animal or vermin. Among other things, it increases their size to Gargantuan.
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Where can I find the details of the Legion of Folded Paper Feat?
I've been tooling around with a Pathfinder 1E campaign of mine, specifically with trying out some templates for potential monster encounters. While I was doing this, I stumbled across the Ofuda ...
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