Talk:Taint-blessed (3.5e Template)

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ThunderGod Cid opposes this article and rated it 0 of 4.

Reading through this really just made me kind of yawn, which is not a good thing. The only bit that I thought was sort of nifty was removing the alignment restrictions on Tainted feats. Other than that, it's a pile of +1 bonuses and a couple of ability score adjustments, which do nothing but rack up the CR of the template (I applaud not having Level Adjustment, else I would really be on your ass for that) and are OK passive bonuses but nothing that would excite me as a player. Since it's a transformative template, I think it would behoove you to remove the "lol +1" bonuses and focus on how it alters the character. Like what undead templates do, although they have their own problems so I won't elaborate on that example. Ability score bonuses are OK as long as you can justify them being in existence, but it seems to me from reading this that they should still suffer some ill effects from Taint and therefore be sick, sick people as opposed to generally being badass at everything for no reason other than they absorbed a whole bunch of shit that should have killed them and then somehow got better.

	MisterSinister opposes this article and rated it 0 of 4.
	Write abilities, not numbers. Union of flavour and mechanics. Don't suck penis. None of these goals were met with this work.

Now what it looks like?--Idlem 19:24, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

Like shit? You still end up creating a bullshit subtype which doesn't exist and a bullshit bonus type that doesn't exist within the first five paragraphs. - MisterSinister 05:43, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

The Level Adjustment section is also particularly wonky. Some of the abilities are gestalt-like? I'm not even sure what that means, although if the alternative is level adjustment I think I'm inclined to say it's probably not good. With regards to templates, I don't really get the whole obsession with making a templated creature randomly better at every little thing than the same creature sans template; I think a template should only affect things that it obviously makes sense to change. "It's infected with evil, ergo it's faster" does not jive, for example. - TG Cid 12:54, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

TG Cid>Corrected. When I wrote gestalt-like I talked about the gestalt characters from UA. As you say, that doesn't make sense anyway. I just let the minimal stuff, like Strike of Taint, which seems like a good idea (is it?).

Mistersinister>Mistake in the subtype name. Corrected now, and I removed the "go faster" stuff.--Idlem 14:39, 16 July 2012 (UTC)