didn't really work out very well, as a general rule of thumb.īut, a new edition is a new chance to get this right. This was an idea that was hugely popular, both for flavor and, let's be honest, for sheer powergaming potential, but the scourge of Level Adjustment meant that such templates. Rather than mandating unique specific racial writeups for half-dragons, half-fiends and all of the other fusions out there. Oh! I thought I should mention that, having read Pathfinder's "Demons Revisited" and seeing how it tweaks the Half-Fiend template for more direct ancestry properties, I'd love to go for a similar option in this process as well.One of the most innovative, if also the most contentious, new ideas that third edition brought into D&D was the concept of race templates. how to actually achieve this? What I'm currently leaning towards is the idea of using the 5e prestige class base-rules as a basis, seeing as how "creature classes" were a thing in 3e, but I'd like to discuss how to pull this off, if anyone's interested. Balancing game-crunch, making sure there's a legitimate sacrifice for a worthwhile payout, that's the biggest thing about what I want to do. The big issue with templates is that either you get far too much power, so it becomes foolish not to take them, or else they hinder you so badly that only the most hardcore of RPer is willing to cripple their character by taking them. The watchword for this project is: "Power At A Fair Price".
We don't know if WoTC is ever going to release them officially, so where's the harm in trying to make them workable? Why? Because, even if they could be sought after just for the sake of muchkinism, the half-fiend or half-dragon or whatever else is also a race with some very broad potential "character hooks" built right into it by virtue of concept. If folks are interested, what I want to pursue here is a way to make racial templates a viable character upgrade for players in D&D 5th edition. One of the most innovative, if also the most contentious, new ideas that third edition brought into D&D was the concept of race templates.
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