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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Darrin Drader" data-source="post: 1717817" data-attributes="member: 7394">Sorry if that came off as a dis. I've learned to take some harsh criticism and put it to use in my own work, but it is possible that its a little too easy for me to dish it out now. Like I said before, it is a good start. As for the template issue, I agree that the two are related. However, despite the fact that the template states that the host creature is destroyed in the creation of the alien, that leaves a little too much room for interpretation. For example, how many hit dice does an alien start with? The host creature may or may not have had racial hit dice and most likely had class hit dice. Is the alien supposed to get these? Probably not, yet the template doesn't address this issue. If they are supposed to get them, why? Exactly how many hit dice should the alien get then? What about class and racial abilities? Again, the template doesn't state that these go away and leaves a lot of room for interpretation. I agree that the alien's final form is to some extent determined by the creature that hosts it, which means that the host creature should actually be the template for the alien. You don't even have to do a separate template for each creature type. You can set up general guidelines that specify how the template works based on the host. You can say something like this - Size: the alien's size becomes the same as that of the host creature; - Special Attacks: The alien inherits any extradordinary special attacks of the host creature, and so on. The bottom line is that it isn't the host that the template is being applied to, its the alien itself.</blockquote>

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