Darren Drader and Sanctify the Wicked

[Cheiromancer]

This is a question for Whisperfoot, based on something he said in the thread about Erik Mona and the Century Worm. I decided not to make that thread go off topic. If anyone knows the answer, or would care to speculate, feel free!

Been there, done that, bought the T-shirt. Anyone remember the discrepancy in the text of the sanctify the wicked spell from the Book of Exalted Deeds? In one paragraph it says that it can work on fiends and in the next it says the opposite. And then the template that goes with it says that the creature loses all SU abilities, yet the dragon still has its breath weapon. The developers really are the unsing heroes of the whole process, but there are times when I wish they would go over the final results with the original designer before sending it off to print. In this case they took the one thing about that book that I was the most excited about having written and completely undermined the entire concept upon which it had been based.

My original intention behind that spell and template was to allow characters to do the impossible - turn a force of evil - a fiend - into a good aligned creature. My secondary motivation behind it was to make it possible for players to play god aligned versions of lesser devils or demons that had been sanctified. I'd been watching a bit of Buffy and Angel at the time it had been designed and it seemed only logical that there should be some good aligned demons in existence. Aside from that, I originally applied the template to a bearded devil, not a red dragon.

Oh well, as a freelancer, you put your head down and keep grinding forward.

So were sanctified fiends supposed to lose their supernatural powers? I gave away my book of exalted deeds, and so I have very vague recollections about this template. It struck me as weakening the creature greatly, but leaving it with quite a high CR. How was it supposed to work, exactly?

Could you post the bearded devil you originally envisaged?

Oh, and I get a 404 for the private forums in your sig.

 

[Cheiromancer]

I see Whisperfoot is on the boards. A quick bump to put this back on the front page, where there is a chance he'll see it.