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2015-08-21, 03:54 AM (ISO 8601)
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Turns out you can apply the same template multiple times!
While browsing the WotC archives, I came across the following bit of awesome:
Okay, so applying the chimeric template from Monster Manual II to a chimera may seem odd, but it's perfectly legal. You can add a template more than once to the same creature as long as it continues to qualify.Creator of the LA-assignment thread.
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2015-08-21, 07:18 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Turns out you can apply the same template multiple times!
I'm not sure what the ancient question you are referring to is ?
You can also apply the Evolved template multiple times.π = 4
Consider a 5' radius blast: this affects 4 squares which have a circumference of 40' — Actually it's worse than that.
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2015-08-21, 07:55 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Turns out you can apply the same template multiple times!
Nedz, the line refers to all templates, not just chimeric. So hello again infinite half dragon stacking :P
I follow a general rule: better to ask and be told no than not to ask at all.
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2015-08-21, 08:01 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Turns out you can apply the same template multiple times!
Well it's an article about example monsters, and we know examples are always wrong, and does this count as rules text anyway ?
π = 4
Consider a 5' radius blast: this affects 4 squares which have a circumference of 40' — Actually it's worse than that.
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2015-08-21, 08:19 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Turns out you can apply the same template multiple times!
I'd treat the article with a big grain of salt. From some of the other builds:
This creature is technically illegal, unless you split hairs (and it probably still is)...This creature has a couple of issues to consider. First, does a treant have a head? A distinctive head is required for the multiheaded template to be applicable. I say it does, or rather it has a trunk, and somewhere in the trunk it has facial features. ..
It sounds like this is more of a "custom monster" article than anything, and he admits that he's bending some of the usual monster rules for the sake of awesome. (Which, as a DM, is perfectly okay for him to do).
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2015-08-21, 09:36 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Turns out you can apply the same template multiple times!
Creator of the LA-assignment thread.
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2015-08-21, 09:54 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Turns out you can apply the same template multiple times!
Well that's a teeny bit of a paradox. Can you treat an article as rules text when the article admits that the rules are being broken here ?
π = 4
Consider a 5' radius blast: this affects 4 squares which have a circumference of 40' — Actually it's worse than that.
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2015-08-21, 10:10 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Turns out you can apply the same template multiple times!
I think the point is that it says "This is legal", "This one isn't legal," "This one isn't legal either," and "This one is technically legal, but you're a jerk if you use it". The point is that the fact that he specifies which is legal and which isn't might mean that half-dragon half-dragon half-dragons really are legal.
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2015-08-22, 02:59 AM (ISO 8601)
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2015-08-22, 08:00 AM (ISO 8601)
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chief grukgruk half-orc, too. other half, also orc
Time travels in divers paces with divers persons.
—As You Like It, III:ii:328
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2015-08-22, 09:11 AM (ISO 8601)
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2015-08-22, 06:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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2015-08-22, 09:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Turns out you can apply the same template multiple times!
Well if you reset you con score with something like incarnate creature and dust creature it could work(also at each loop you would decrease the EL and increase your strength and your dex(but not your charsima because it is reset at each time)) then as you are of el -infinity you gain levels each time you pick up a rose(those scary dangerous spikes).
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2015-08-23, 08:43 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Turns out you can apply the same template multiple times!
So wait what happens if a lich just keeps making phylacteries?
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2015-08-23, 08:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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2015-08-23, 08:57 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Turns out you can apply the same template multiple times!
I use braces (also known as "curly brackets") to indicate sarcasm. If there are none present, I probably believe what I am saying; should it turn out to be inaccurate trivia, please tell me rather than trying to play along with an apparent joke I don't know I'm making.
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2015-08-23, 09:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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I'm a vestige!
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2015-08-24, 01:27 AM (ISO 8601)
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2015-08-24, 01:33 AM (ISO 8601)
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2015-08-24, 01:34 AM (ISO 8601)
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2015-08-24, 04:04 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Turns out you can apply the same template multiple times!
Creator of the LA-assignment thread.
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2015-08-24, 04:50 AM (ISO 8601)
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2015-08-24, 06:28 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Turns out you can apply the same template multiple times!
This can get downright evil if you make use of Human Heritage. Then, regardless of templates, you type would revert back to Humanoid (Human). Thus, any template that could be applied to a humanoid can be applied infinitely. Thus making a Vampire Lich Gravetouched Ghoul Spawn of Kyuss Death Knight Human a legitimate creature (admittingly, one which would have had to have a heck of an interesting life/unlife). Honestly, given the existence of LA, most of this wouldn't really be practical anyway, other than as a hilarious thought experiment as to how such things come to be.
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2015-08-24, 06:41 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Turns out you can apply the same template multiple times!
Repeatedly apply the Magebred template to an animal so it gains nigh infinite strength, dexterity, constitution, natural armor, and speed. Then use that animal as the base for a tauric creature.
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2015-08-24, 06:49 AM (ISO 8601)
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2015-08-24, 06:54 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Turns out you can apply the same template multiple times!
Result: players take human heritage then at level 21 he stacks lich indefinitely with its abusive wealth.
Or even the warrior of the team could stack the Lycanthropy indefinitely when at epic levels.Last edited by noob; 2015-08-24 at 06:56 AM.