TemplePlus
Game: The Temple of Elemental Evil (Windows, 2003)
TemplePlus (Temple+): an engine enhancement and bug-fix mod for The Temple of Elemental Evil, Troika Games’ 2003 RPG. It installs separately, with a configurator that asks for the game folder, and launches the game through your install’s temple.dll, hooking and replacing its functions: its wiki documents how to access and replace that DLL’s data and functions, and many of its systems are rewritten in C++. It moves the game to DirectX 11 with HD resolutions, fake fullscreen, and DirectWrite font rendering, loads faster, improves pathfinding and AI, and fixes many crashes, hangs, and spell and ability bugs, plus UI shortcuts. It adds 6 new base classes, 12 prestige classes, and over 60 feats, which are optional and enabled in the configurator, combat actions such as disarm and shield bash, house rules, a Dungeon Master mode to spawn, edit, and control creatures on the fly, and flexible PC/NPC party composition; it also greatly extends what can be modded with Python (new classes, races, actions, and conditions) and supports override folders for mods. It’s compatible with the Circle of Eight Modpack and the Keep on the Borderlands module. It has put out releases since April 2016; the latest is 1.0.98 (August 7, 2025), with a self-updating installer, and it has kept getting changes since then, the latest in February. The repository also includes modified versions of the game’s Python scripts and dialogue files (with the Circle of Eight fixes), rules tables, map data, and armor and character models and textures, which are packed into tpgamefiles.dat and co8fixes.dat.
You needYour own installed copy of The Temple of Elemental Evil for PC with the patch 2 temple.dll: the GOG version, the one its website links to, works, and so does an install with the Circle of Eight Modpack; patch 3 isn’t supported. Plus Windows.
- Type
- Mod
- Game
- The Temple of Elemental Evil (PC, 2003)
- Platform
- Microsoft Windows
- Author
- doug1234, Pugmeister, Sagenlicht, Sitra Achara, …
- Stars
- 111
- Last activity
- 2026-02-23 · 8 months ago
- Latest version
- v1.0.98 · 2025-08-07
- License
- MIT
- Language
- C++
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