Effigy and Templates [Archive] - Wizards Community

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Malcoren

10-27-05, 05:46 PM
OK, so I was messing around with some builds and my usual pile of half-created thoroughly-fiendish critters, and I wondered...

Is there any official ruling preventing the Effigy Creature template from being applied to a templated or advanced creature? Seems this can be abused, price-wise, since one can take a decent or efficient creature (such as the Dire Lion) and adding a few templates to it that don't raise its Hit Dice. Yes, I know the CR goes up, but I'm talking from a cost-based perspective for characters to make.