On the Effectiveness of Dungeon Fantasy Templates

I've been playing Dungeon Fantasy in online and face to face groups for about six years now. I've seen played or played myself most of the templates. I have some opinions on which templates work better, and I share them here. In some cases, I've added suggestions for improving the template.

As part of that, I've also written some thoughts on the kinds of challenges a delving band can expect to see, and what abilities they need to overcome those challenges.

Challenges

• Combat Challenges
• Non-Combat Challenges
• Delving Band Composition

Templates

• Artificers and improving them.
• Bards
• Clerics
• Druids
• Imbuement skills in play - and other people's opinions of them.
• Knights and improving them.
• Martial Artists
• Shamans and improving them.
• Thieves