eXtreme templation! is this possible? [Archive] - Wizards Community

Post/Author/DateTimePost
mattman709

04-07-07, 12:16 AM
all right. start with a fiendish dire werewolf(were-dire wolf?) half-giant(expanded psionics handbook). magically alter his alignment to LG with the helm of opposite alignment(maybe not exact name...I do know it's a cursed item though.) Then is it possible to breed it with a celestial gold dragon? to have a half-fiendish, half-celestial, half-dragon, half-giant dire werewolf? for some reason I'm thinking werecreature might only apply to humans and giants, so would the child drop that inherited template? just make it a ghost(undead, not the ghostwalk kind) and you have a ghost half-fiendish, half-celestial, half-dragon, half giant dire werewolf. wait, would that make it quarter fiendish, quarter etc... since there's four "halves"? And would it be even possible?

edit: even w/o the half-dragon, werewolf, etc., would it be possible to create just the half-fiend half-celestial creature with one's alignment changed?
Khan the Destroyer

04-07-07, 12:24 AM
Savage Species goes into detail on how templates stack. I'm not an expert on these things, so I'll just say that much, and also...

Templates can be a dangerous thing. While they may add power to a character in the form of ability boosts, spell-like abilities, and/or other goodies, they do not add HD, which is pretty important. HD determines your HP, saves, and BAB, as well as skill points, and what sorts of effects can affect you. A character with lots of templates may seem powerful, but may in fact be a glass cannon in actual combat.
Thiez

04-07-07, 11:44 AM
Beware of the first level dire fiendish celestial half-dragon half-fiend half-celestial spellstitched vampire umbral effigy pseudonatural commoner!

Player: I cast magic missle.
DM: !!! :(
mattman709

04-07-07, 12:32 PM
true. I was just wondering if it was even possible to combine those, though.

I'll look for savage species, but last time i was at the store nearby that sells dnd stuff, they didn't have any(and i'm fairly sure they didn't even have a shelf for it!)
lord_zack

04-07-07, 03:45 PM
Half-giant is not a template.
Raymond_Luxury_Yacht

04-07-07, 06:10 PM
Half-giant is not a template.

He's using it as the base creature.
lord_zack

04-08-07, 03:24 PM
He's using it as the base creature.

Yeah, I missed that. For some reason I the base creature was supposed to be something else.