No worry Lockepick, double checking your char after Kimera mentioned you and then it made me go 'huh? Why I was even worried about template requirements in first place?' and thus drop the issue.<br/><br/>But good point that templates should present char concept/ideas than just 'take for stats'. MoL is pretty generic and fits role as 'template which gives stats'.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=283008.msg13947934#msg13947934">Quote from: Kimera on 24-02-2018, 16:56:21</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">- Dark menagerie: Hidden within her shadow is an extradimensional space where she can store a number of creatures, including her mount, cohort and followers. Creatures are stored safely inside until she has a need for them.<br/><br/>- Gnawing Darkness: She is able to create a zone of darkness centered around her with a radius of 100ft. Within the field, she is able to 'summon' forth creatures stored inside her dark menagerie, appearing as amorphous, shadowy mockeries of their true form. <br/>Potential effects (not all of them mind you): <br/>    Replace all natural weapons with bite attacks of the appropriate size of the monster. <br/>    Creatures get half-farspawn template<br/>    creatures gain some darkness related template... <br/><br/>Additionally, monsters summoned by spells or spell-like abilities by her inside this zone also benefit from the above benefit.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>That's lot of stuff but here are my thoughts/ideas;<br/><br/><strong>Dark Menagerie:</strong>It sounds like supernatural version of Mordenkaine/Mage’s Magnificent Mansion (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/magesMagnificentMansion.htm) on steroids. If details how it expands/grows and what it can do are done, I approve the idea (even if it's based on spell and just expanded upon it). Your sort mobile extra dimensional entity.<br/><br/><strong>Gnawing Darkness:</strong>Overall the 100'ft shadowy zone which spawns creatures sound very similar to Shadow Landscape (http://dnd.arkalseif.info/spells/spell-compendium--86/shadow-landscape--4145/index.html), expect centered on you and 100'ft instead of 1 mile. Also other parts sound like Shades (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/shades.htm) spell (conjure semi-real phantoms from other dimension), which you freely add then example Dark creature template (and could allow half-farspawn template stacked in as well as we speak of dark eldricth horrors going tentacle frenzy/rape inside the zone).<br/><br/>I think if your a tana'ri, you could replace your standard summoning ability granted as tana'ri to combine it with Gnawing Darkness power; able conjure shadowy tentacle monsters roam in the area (and could allow it be 1 mile zone centered on you or location if you so desire create such dark zone). So as monster your pretty weird in sense that instead summoning 'allies' as tana'ri (from somewhere in abyss), you instead summon entities stored inside your own dimension (which could be also be sort prison to some entities who become tainted and warped into such creatures).<br/><br/>Anyways interesting theme albeit stacking radiant for your char would be pretty weird for concept wise.