| Iziak |
How important to you are sample creatures for templates?
If templates in a bestiary (Paizo official or otherwise) didn't have sample creatures, would you miss them?
If a book which consisted exclusively of templates (like Green Ronin's Advanced Bestiary) didn't have many sample creatures, would you miss them?
Note that the same space which would have been used for the sample would be used for other content... more art, more monsters or templates, a new item or feat related to the template, more descriptive text (which is all too short due to space, at least in the Paizo Bestiaries), etc.
What if the book was cheaper because the samples weren't there? Writing a little fluff text or a new item/feat presumably doesn't cost as much as writing up a full stats block.
Templates with obvious main uses (e.g., human warrior skeletons and zombies, werewolf lycanthropes) would still have samples, but not things like half-celestial and ghost.
What are your thoughts?