An excellent book for quickly generating characters or villians, the templates add typically add +2 or +3 PL. A nice, quick, and easy process for adding more variety to npcs, villians, and heroes.

A well thought out product that is useful to both new and experienced players.

New players can use the templates to customize a character, give it their own unique twist, while a GM could use the templates to quickly come up with minions (the easy to beat kind masterminds love to use) as well as higher powered opponents (your standard jobber villains). The example NPCs are all great, showing how some of the various templates can be used, a great springboard for Gms to use. I also thought the variations of all the templates, showing just how versitile the system is.

A lot of M&M supplements are basically just boil-in-the-bag new characters to be dropped into an ongoing campaign - they may save you a little time, but you may well still have to do some adaptation work.

The Template Tome is a bit different - there are a few new builds, but most of the book is taken up with fifty or so templates which can used to modify existing statblocks (eighteen 'core' ones with a couple of variants each), ranging from 'rubbery' to 'gigantic' to 'meditative'. Happily, these mostly mix and match quite happily, and I am looking forward to finding a way to introduce Radioactive Gun-toting Undead thugs to one of my own games.

In other words, rather than sparing you the need to be creative by providing a few new characters, this book gives you the tools and material to inspire your own creativity, which is surely much more satisfying. Admittedly, applying these templates takes a little more work, but that's a reasonable trade if you ask me.

The presentation of the material is also extremely pleasing, with excellent art and layout. In short, I think any M&M GM worth his salt would find something - probably many things - of value in this supplement.

I enjoyed this product. A nice collection of simple templates -- including several full builds featuring the templates added to characters and monsters -- and some excelent art.

For a first product this is a superb little must have and certainly means I'll be adding this company to my list of must follow for the Mutsnt & Mastermind games system.

Have a character who can change powers? use the statblocks provided to quickly and easily add in new powers as needed. Want flying monkeys, take a basic monkey template from the core books and add in the statblock from this pack for winged and instantly you have your Oz opponent ready to inflict on your players!

Wonderful. Can't wait to see what else Purple Prose produces...