And by templating, I mean the processing of writing up a person's stats into a block.
I'm managing a bunch of characters and I like to use the NPC-style blocks to present them for consistency. If I have to pull one directly from a book, I'd like all the information presented exactly the same way as my other prepared characters and since I can't change the NPC blocks in the books, I need to change my presentation.
I can usually get pretty close, especially after the Gamemastery and NPC books came out, but there are still a number of things not included and I was wondering if there was a templating guide for it and if it was available to the general public (my guess is no). But I thought I'd ask.
In the mean time, perhaps we can compile a list of tricky templating questions here (though I fear I'm the only one anal enough about this to care).
E.g. how do you template spell-like abilities that are not uses per day, but rather per attack or per square (or feet), etc.?
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Per feet? You mean stuff like shadow dancer's shady teleport, right?
I'd add it as a special ability under offense and put the distance you can cover per day in parentheses. You could even put it after the speed, as it is a form of movement.
Abilities that are applied per attack are listed after the damage, as "(... plus ABILITY)" and further elaborated under special attacks.