DF Templates

[ULFGARD]

Originally Posted by Rev. Pee Kitty

Sure. I'd say Summoners in particular provides a good example of how you can take one concept and make it applicable to many different types of characters. It's also a good worked example of how to meld spells and powers. The justiciar not so much; I don't think there's a lot you could take away from it into a non-DF game.

Not to seem like DF fanboy, but I'm taking a lot of DF material and doing a bit of addition/subtraction wherever necessary (i.e., small tweaks) and using it in a straight fantasy game. The Justicar makes a good template for a high level investigator -- in fact, one of the major NPCs in my game was made with this template, with another 25 points in abilities and skills added on. Some of the summoners templates make good bases for certain secret magic circles in my game world. And I've done this all "after the fact".

Not sure if that makes the templates generally useful. For my purposes, NONE of them are perfect "out of the box" -- the characters just don't make sense. But then, I'm not running a DF game. (It's a 150 point game that doesn't focus on dungeon delving.) But with additions to skills, judicious attention to advantages, etc., they make for good NPCs. Or starting points for characters (using the excellent DF on the cheap).

[Kromm]

Originally Posted by Peter Knutsen

Where is the Assassin template for DF? Have I overlooked something?

It's in Dungeon Fantasy 12: Ninja. The full list, for those playing along at home:

Dungeon Fantasy 1: Adventurers

• Barbarian
• Bard
• Cleric
• Druid
• Holy Warrior
• Knight
• Martial Artist
• Scout
• Swashbuckler
• Thief
• Wizard

Dungeon Fantasy 3: The Next Level

• Evil Cleric
• Unholy Warrior

Dungeon Fantasy 4: Sages

• Artificer
• Scholar

Dungeon Fantasy 7: Clerics

• Many variant cleric templates!

Dungeon Fantasy 9: Summoners

• Demonologist
• Elementalist
• Necromancer
• Shaman

Dungeon Fantasy 10: Taverns

• Innkeeper

Dungeon Fantasy 12: Ninja

• Ninja
• Assassin

Dungeon Fantasy 14: Psi

• Mentalist

Pyramid #3/10

• Justiciar

Pyramid #3/13

• Mystic Knight

[ericbsmith]

Originally Posted by Kromm

Dungeon Fantasy 3: The Next Level

Lets not forget the whole host of Mixed Profession Lenses which covers all the possible combinations from Dungeon Fantasy 1 (Bard-Barbarian, Thief-Wizard, etc. - 110 lenses in all!)

Originally Posted by Kromm

Dungeon Fantasy 7: Clerics

• Many variant cleric templates!

And a few Holy Warrior and Druid variants as well.

[Peter Knutsen]

Originally Posted by PseudoFenton

Dungeon Fantasy 12 - Ninja, page 9. It doesn't come with a wealth of upgrade notes or anything but its quite nice (I personally prefer it over the Ninja, but then I vote pirate and like my ninjas more mundane).

Thanks. I had completely forgotten that DF12 had an Assassin template...

[Celti]

Originally Posted by Kromm

"I serve the Flaming Fist!"

Oh gods, I just got nostalgia'd so hard. Maybe I should run a DF game set on the Sword Coast...

[lachimba]

Originally Posted by Toadkiller_Dog

Er, not really.

hmm wonder what I was thinking of then...

[Kuroshima]

And I expect to see more templates in October's Pyramid, since it's supposed to be Dungeon Fantasy themed. Now, I hope it includes something other than templates! (I would love to have an adventure, two articles on new or variant templates, one on monsters, and one of the nature of the genre)

[lachimba]

Originally Posted by Kuroshima

And I expect to see more templates in October's Pyramid, since it's supposed to be Dungeon Fantasy themed. Now, I hope it includes something other than templates! (I would love to have an adventure, two articles on new or variant templates, one on monsters, and one of the nature of the genre)

I wouldn't mind some Lenses. I have thought for a while that there is good capacity for lenes to make the template more distinct and themed. Wouldn't be interesting enough for a book, but a two page Pyramid article sure why not?