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1001 Template Idea's Thread [Archive] - Wizards Community

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I Am Famine
12-06-05, 10:32 AM Hi thanks for checking out my thread. In this thread you can post your unstatted ideas for templates. If you want to post a fully-sttatted template or use one of the ideas here then feel free to, but please only number unstatted ideas. Your ideas can discuss how the ideas would work mechanically and conceptually, and feel free to post any of your (constructive) criticism and questions about any of the ideas/templates. Please tell me what you think of my following ideas for some templates I might create, also any tips on how I should go about making them will be appreciated... :)

1) Naga Template: Naga are intelligent snake-like monsters with humanoid heads. This template create's a Naga-like form from any Humanoid, Monstrous Humanoid or Giant creatures; or any creature with a generally humanoid shape. It would give the base creature Naga traits as well as poison and spell-like abilities according to the base creatures HD and Ability mods. I'm thinking that this one will be quite easy to create.
2) Planetouched Template: Planetouched are humans (at least in the gaming terms of the template) who can trace their ancestry back an inhabitant from another plane, which is also apparent in their unnatural appearance, personalities and powers. This template creates a weaker +1 LA player race out of any creature with the Outsider type. The fact that Planetouched have at least one power linking them to their ancestral blood would be difficult to achieve mechanically. A system would need to made in which the outsider loses most of its abilities and overbalanced powers to make way for particular bonuses and planetouched power.
3) Kokeshi Template: Kokeshi are japanese folk figurines made of wood with simplistic but cute features. To me they have always looked like small nature spirits, like suburban civilized Fey. The template can be applied to any creature with the Fey type. The most obvious changes include the size change to any base creature over the size of Diminutive. As a result they have lessened HD and physical abilities but much improved social and charismatic skills.
4) Adapted Animal Template: Sometimes animals might be altered (either magically or naturally) by the kinds of enviroments they encounter. The adapted animal template can alter any creature with the Animal type to live in either an Aquatic, Aerial or Arboreal enviroment. The changes made include the types of movements the animal gets, their ability to breate/survive in those enviroments and of course their appearance. Though complicated and multi-layered this might be a fairly easy template to create.

Thanks for your time, please feel free to post your own ideas to continue the list... :D
savant_warlord13
12-06-05, 03:01 PM 5. pygmy template- creatures that evolve on small islands often evolve into a smaller form to avoid depleting resources
Realms of Chaos
12-06-05, 09:42 PM 6.Borderdeath Creature: For lack of better words, a undead creature that ages and has a consitution score but bestows all of its immunities, benifits, and drawbacks.

7.Deathseeper creature: A template that allows creatures to bestow negative levels to empower themself. Think souped up spellwarped creature.

8.Poisontouched: creature is resiliant or immune to poison and delivers a random one through touch. Perhaps a bonus to con.

9.Diseasetouched: creature is resiliant or immune to disease and delivers a random one through touch. Perhaps a bonus to con.

10Magecarved: A template that wizards and sorcerers can carve upon themselves through a process much like creating a magic item. Gives them the innate ability to cast some spell-like-abilities. Think spellstitched but for the living.
Krunk Ironmaw
12-06-05, 09:54 PM 11. Mekanikal template - A clockwork version of any humanoid, monsterous humanoid, animal, vermin, or giant. Looses any supernatural or spell-like ability in exchange for increased strength and armor. Must be wound up, like an old clock, once per week, or it will cease to function until it is wound again.
I Am Famine
12-07-05, 03:33 AM Thanks for your contributions guys... :D

12) Adorable Template: Sometimes a smaller much cuter subrace of a creature evolves alongside its larger relative, or sometimes spellcasters create a smaller version of a monster to use as a familiar. This template could be added to any creature of any type. The most obvious changes would be the creatures new size, nothing larger than small. Also included would be penalties to physical abilities, bonuses to mental abilities and and aura of Innocence ability.
Blaze_the_Dragon
12-07-05, 03:43 AM 13. MPD Template: THe creatuer Benifits from Mutliple Personality disorder, They imediatly choose an additional favored class, and recive no penities for Multi-weapon fighting
I Am Famine
12-07-05, 09:06 AM 14) Gluttony Template: These fiendish outsiders represent the sin of Indulgence. They are often horrifically obese, covered in boils and weeping sores and have unnaturally wide mouths. They also tend to harbor viscous substances and fould diseases. They speak in painful and guttural tones as though their throats were shredded and bloody.

15) Avarice Template: These fiendish outsiders represent the sin of Greed. They tend to have artifacts from various times and cultures embedded in their face body and limbs, often made of various metals and stones all binded with luxurious fabrics and materials. They speak with unliving metallic voices and many artificial sounds emanate from within them.

16) Lust Template: These fiendish outsiders represent the sin of Desire. They tend to be unnaturally fair of skin, with long silken hair, colorful exxagerated eyes and multiple limbs, bodyparts and other physical attributes. They're voices tend to be exotic, oddly accented and seductive.

17) Accidie Template: These fiendish outsiders represent the sin of Sloth. They tend to look like black and white ghostly creatures with masked and enshadowed faces, moving with a strange and unnatural buoyancy. Sometimes their limbs and overlong and their presence seems to drain the very colour from their surroundings. They're voices are sad, agonized and etherial.

18) Wrath Template: These fiendish outsiders represent the sin of Anger. They tend to be animalistic, heavily fanged and clawed, have spiny or blood-soaked hair and skin and have wide bloodshot eyes. Their bodies and limbs are twisted and brutish. They speak with savage and hateful tones only so long as they stop roaring and shrieking.

19) Envy Template: These fiendish outsiders represent the sin of Jealousy. They look like substantial and unnaturally alacritic shadows of normal material creatures, the only discernible features being their green, glowing spiteful eyes. They speak with cruel, highly distorted voices filled with gleeful hate.

20) Vanity Template: These fiendish outsiders represent the sin of Pride. They look like a sinister and arrogant mockery of celestial beings with alienesque feathered wings and perfect unmarred features. Ruining this visage of beauty however often includes needle-sharp claws, pupiless souless eyes and another monstrous feature such as a set of tentacles, mandibles, etc. They speak with booming, condescending god-like voices.
I Am Famine
12-07-05, 09:19 AM 21) Breath Weapon Template: Sometimes due to arcane or elemental interferance an animal, humanoid or even a monsteous beast gains the ability to breathe out fire, ice, electricity, among other things. Quite a simple template to create really. It gives any living, non-incorporeal creature a breath weapon of the creators choice as well as an immunity to the chosen energy type.

22) Swarm Golem Template: Turns any creature of the Swarm subtype into a self-concious intelligent creature with the living construct subtype.

23) Dire Anthropomorphic Template: Turns any animal into a giant humanoid version of the animal.
Morka
12-07-05, 10:56 AM 24) Hag: Hags are monstrous humanoids. They usually take the form of humanoids with great strenght and magical power; they can also increase their power by forming coveys. A large variety of hags could be created by using a template. The template would increase STR and CHA, give some spell-like abilities from Illusion, Transmutation and Necromancy school and the ability to form a covey. To produce more kinds of hags, the template could give option (like the Shadow Creature template): a swim speed, a claw or bite attack, a size increase, an additional special attack or special quality.

25) Half Dragons: Yes, there's already an half-dragon template. But it cover only limited aspects of the True Dragons. Other template could be done to give the half-dragon more movement mode (swim, burrow), spell-like abilities, a more potent breath weapon, etc.
MrAdam
12-08-05, 01:48 PM 26) The Diseased template- The poor creature is a coctail of various horrible diseases and is physically and mentally falling apart but still lives for some unknown reason.

27)Burning *man*- A wooden replica of a creature that eternally burns with magical fire

28)Sand *man*- A replica of a creature made of sand, that is held together with magical force, can reshape it's body and limbs to a certain degree (enough to "flow' through small gaps and reform it's limbs into weapons) and is impervious to harm from bludgeoning and piercing weapons

29)Taxiderma- The creature is undead, though the corpse has been prepared through alchemical means and magically animated so it seems alive and in perfect health.

30)Saturnine- Saturnine creatures dwell in an alternate reality, and sometimes accidentally come through. Saturnine creatures resembel the creatures they are supposed to only in their general outline, instead posesing masses of gossamer organic crystal that glows in an indiscribable aray of colors. Saturnine creatures are usually larger and tougher than the earthly counterparts and have razor-sharp crystaline claws, and a number of small "rending limbs" that extend from their bellies to aid them in riping their prey to shreads
(I got the idea for this one from the "Cats from saturn" from a HP Lovecraft Story)

BREATH WEAPON HAS BEEN DONE IN THAT THERE "BOOK OF TEMPLATES"
I Am Famine
12-09-05, 04:01 AM 31) Invisible Template: Turns any living, non-incorporeal creature into an invisible and completly undetectable version of itself.
LordBritish2
12-10-05, 03:47 PM Where/what is this here "Book of Templates"? :confused:
I Am Famine
12-13-05, 09:04 AM Where/what is this here "Book of Templates"? :confused:

I believe you can buy it in download PDF form from Rpg now.com
I Am Famine
12-15-05, 04:04 AM 32) Internus Template: An Internus Creature is a member of any living creature (normally humanoid) whose evolution has advanced to such a state that their physical bodies are still in fetal forms, floating in organic buoyant spheres resembling a womb. What has changed however is their sheer psionic power. They have vast intellects, unnaturally ranged perceptions and a strong sense of self and personality. Some have a deep compassion for life and dignity protecting less-evolved beings. Some however believe that because of their obvious superioraty that lesser-races must beholden themselves to the Internus.
This would probably be an Epic level template which would make lots of changes to the base creature. Physical changes would be a massive reduction in physical stats, a beholder-like flying speed and a size change of two categories smaller than the base creature; ie a human Internus is now Tiny. Mental changes howeever include an equally vast bonus to Int, Wis and Cha as well as giving the base creature many massively powered psychic abilities and psionic powers.

33) Filcher Template: Unknown to most but the wisest of planar sages, on some worlds Ethereal and Temporal Filchers are two of a whole group of aberrations that have derived from the same stock. The template can be added to any living non-outsider creature with the extraplanar subtype. It gains the 1 legged 4 armed appearance of the common filchers, gains the Aberration type and the ability to shift back and forth between the material plane and its home plane at will.

Post/Author/DateTime	Post
I Am Famine 12-06-05, 10:32 AM	Hi thanks for checking out my thread. In this thread you can post your unstatted ideas for templates. If you want to post a fully-sttatted template or use one of the ideas here then feel free to, but please only number unstatted ideas. Your ideas can discuss how the ideas would work mechanically and conceptually, and feel free to post any of your (constructive) criticism and questions about any of the ideas/templates. Please tell me what you think of my following ideas for some templates I might create, also any tips on how I should go about making them will be appreciated... :) 1) Naga Template: Naga are intelligent snake-like monsters with humanoid heads. This template create's a Naga-like form from any Humanoid, Monstrous Humanoid or Giant creatures; or any creature with a generally humanoid shape. It would give the base creature Naga traits as well as poison and spell-like abilities according to the base creatures HD and Ability mods. I'm thinking that this one will be quite easy to create. 2) Planetouched Template: Planetouched are humans (at least in the gaming terms of the template) who can trace their ancestry back an inhabitant from another plane, which is also apparent in their unnatural appearance, personalities and powers. This template creates a weaker +1 LA player race out of any creature with the Outsider type. The fact that Planetouched have at least one power linking them to their ancestral blood would be difficult to achieve mechanically. A system would need to made in which the outsider loses most of its abilities and overbalanced powers to make way for particular bonuses and planetouched power. 3) Kokeshi Template: Kokeshi are japanese folk figurines made of wood with simplistic but cute features. To me they have always looked like small nature spirits, like suburban civilized Fey. The template can be applied to any creature with the Fey type. The most obvious changes include the size change to any base creature over the size of Diminutive. As a result they have lessened HD and physical abilities but much improved social and charismatic skills. 4) Adapted Animal Template: Sometimes animals might be altered (either magically or naturally) by the kinds of enviroments they encounter. The adapted animal template can alter any creature with the Animal type to live in either an Aquatic, Aerial or Arboreal enviroment. The changes made include the types of movements the animal gets, their ability to breate/survive in those enviroments and of course their appearance. Though complicated and multi-layered this might be a fairly easy template to create. Thanks for your time, please feel free to post your own ideas to continue the list... :D
savant_warlord13 12-06-05, 03:01 PM	5. pygmy template- creatures that evolve on small islands often evolve into a smaller form to avoid depleting resources
Realms of Chaos 12-06-05, 09:42 PM	6.Borderdeath Creature: For lack of better words, a undead creature that ages and has a consitution score but bestows all of its immunities, benifits, and drawbacks. 7.Deathseeper creature: A template that allows creatures to bestow negative levels to empower themself. Think souped up spellwarped creature. 8.Poisontouched: creature is resiliant or immune to poison and delivers a random one through touch. Perhaps a bonus to con. 9.Diseasetouched: creature is resiliant or immune to disease and delivers a random one through touch. Perhaps a bonus to con. 10Magecarved: A template that wizards and sorcerers can carve upon themselves through a process much like creating a magic item. Gives them the innate ability to cast some spell-like-abilities. Think spellstitched but for the living.
Krunk Ironmaw 12-06-05, 09:54 PM	11. Mekanikal template - A clockwork version of any humanoid, monsterous humanoid, animal, vermin, or giant. Looses any supernatural or spell-like ability in exchange for increased strength and armor. Must be wound up, like an old clock, once per week, or it will cease to function until it is wound again.
I Am Famine 12-07-05, 03:33 AM	Thanks for your contributions guys... :D 12) Adorable Template: Sometimes a smaller much cuter subrace of a creature evolves alongside its larger relative, or sometimes spellcasters create a smaller version of a monster to use as a familiar. This template could be added to any creature of any type. The most obvious changes would be the creatures new size, nothing larger than small. Also included would be penalties to physical abilities, bonuses to mental abilities and and aura of Innocence ability.
Blaze_the_Dragon 12-07-05, 03:43 AM	13. MPD Template: THe creatuer Benifits from Mutliple Personality disorder, They imediatly choose an additional favored class, and recive no penities for Multi-weapon fighting
I Am Famine 12-07-05, 09:06 AM	14) Gluttony Template: These fiendish outsiders represent the sin of Indulgence. They are often horrifically obese, covered in boils and weeping sores and have unnaturally wide mouths. They also tend to harbor viscous substances and fould diseases. They speak in painful and guttural tones as though their throats were shredded and bloody. 15) Avarice Template: These fiendish outsiders represent the sin of Greed. They tend to have artifacts from various times and cultures embedded in their face body and limbs, often made of various metals and stones all binded with luxurious fabrics and materials. They speak with unliving metallic voices and many artificial sounds emanate from within them. 16) Lust Template: These fiendish outsiders represent the sin of Desire. They tend to be unnaturally fair of skin, with long silken hair, colorful exxagerated eyes and multiple limbs, bodyparts and other physical attributes. They're voices tend to be exotic, oddly accented and seductive. 17) Accidie Template: These fiendish outsiders represent the sin of Sloth. They tend to look like black and white ghostly creatures with masked and enshadowed faces, moving with a strange and unnatural buoyancy. Sometimes their limbs and overlong and their presence seems to drain the very colour from their surroundings. They're voices are sad, agonized and etherial. 18) Wrath Template: These fiendish outsiders represent the sin of Anger. They tend to be animalistic, heavily fanged and clawed, have spiny or blood-soaked hair and skin and have wide bloodshot eyes. Their bodies and limbs are twisted and brutish. They speak with savage and hateful tones only so long as they stop roaring and shrieking. 19) Envy Template: These fiendish outsiders represent the sin of Jealousy. They look like substantial and unnaturally alacritic shadows of normal material creatures, the only discernible features being their green, glowing spiteful eyes. They speak with cruel, highly distorted voices filled with gleeful hate. 20) Vanity Template: These fiendish outsiders represent the sin of Pride. They look like a sinister and arrogant mockery of celestial beings with alienesque feathered wings and perfect unmarred features. Ruining this visage of beauty however often includes needle-sharp claws, pupiless souless eyes and another monstrous feature such as a set of tentacles, mandibles, etc. They speak with booming, condescending god-like voices.
I Am Famine 12-07-05, 09:19 AM	21) Breath Weapon Template: Sometimes due to arcane or elemental interferance an animal, humanoid or even a monsteous beast gains the ability to breathe out fire, ice, electricity, among other things. Quite a simple template to create really. It gives any living, non-incorporeal creature a breath weapon of the creators choice as well as an immunity to the chosen energy type. 22) Swarm Golem Template: Turns any creature of the Swarm subtype into a self-concious intelligent creature with the living construct subtype. 23) Dire Anthropomorphic Template: Turns any animal into a giant humanoid version of the animal.
Morka 12-07-05, 10:56 AM	24) Hag: Hags are monstrous humanoids. They usually take the form of humanoids with great strenght and magical power; they can also increase their power by forming coveys. A large variety of hags could be created by using a template. The template would increase STR and CHA, give some spell-like abilities from Illusion, Transmutation and Necromancy school and the ability to form a covey. To produce more kinds of hags, the template could give option (like the Shadow Creature template): a swim speed, a claw or bite attack, a size increase, an additional special attack or special quality. 25) Half Dragons: Yes, there's already an half-dragon template. But it cover only limited aspects of the True Dragons. Other template could be done to give the half-dragon more movement mode (swim, burrow), spell-like abilities, a more potent breath weapon, etc.
MrAdam 12-08-05, 01:48 PM	26) The Diseased template- The poor creature is a coctail of various horrible diseases and is physically and mentally falling apart but still lives for some unknown reason. 27)Burning man- A wooden replica of a creature that eternally burns with magical fire 28)Sand man- A replica of a creature made of sand, that is held together with magical force, can reshape it's body and limbs to a certain degree (enough to "flow' through small gaps and reform it's limbs into weapons) and is impervious to harm from bludgeoning and piercing weapons 29)Taxiderma- The creature is undead, though the corpse has been prepared through alchemical means and magically animated so it seems alive and in perfect health. 30)Saturnine- Saturnine creatures dwell in an alternate reality, and sometimes accidentally come through. Saturnine creatures resembel the creatures they are supposed to only in their general outline, instead posesing masses of gossamer organic crystal that glows in an indiscribable aray of colors. Saturnine creatures are usually larger and tougher than the earthly counterparts and have razor-sharp crystaline claws, and a number of small "rending limbs" that extend from their bellies to aid them in riping their prey to shreads (I got the idea for this one from the "Cats from saturn" from a HP Lovecraft Story) BREATH WEAPON HAS BEEN DONE IN THAT THERE "BOOK OF TEMPLATES"
I Am Famine 12-09-05, 04:01 AM	31) Invisible Template: Turns any living, non-incorporeal creature into an invisible and completly undetectable version of itself.
LordBritish2 12-10-05, 03:47 PM	Where/what is this here "Book of Templates"? :confused:
I Am Famine 12-13-05, 09:04 AM	Where/what is this here "Book of Templates"? :confused: I believe you can buy it in download PDF form from Rpg now.com
I Am Famine 12-15-05, 04:04 AM	32) Internus Template: An Internus Creature is a member of any living creature (normally humanoid) whose evolution has advanced to such a state that their physical bodies are still in fetal forms, floating in organic buoyant spheres resembling a womb. What has changed however is their sheer psionic power. They have vast intellects, unnaturally ranged perceptions and a strong sense of self and personality. Some have a deep compassion for life and dignity protecting less-evolved beings. Some however believe that because of their obvious superioraty that lesser-races must beholden themselves to the Internus. This would probably be an Epic level template which would make lots of changes to the base creature. Physical changes would be a massive reduction in physical stats, a beholder-like flying speed and a size change of two categories smaller than the base creature; ie a human Internus is now Tiny. Mental changes howeever include an equally vast bonus to Int, Wis and Cha as well as giving the base creature many massively powered psychic abilities and psionic powers. 33) Filcher Template: Unknown to most but the wisest of planar sages, on some worlds Ethereal and Temporal Filchers are two of a whole group of aberrations that have derived from the same stock. The template can be added to any living non-outsider creature with the extraplanar subtype. It gains the 1 legged 4 armed appearance of the common filchers, gains the Aberration type and the ability to shift back and forth between the material plane and its home plane at will.