do you lose benefits of templates if you no longer qualify for it?

[hamishspence]

rules of the game says you can turn into undead and constructs with pao
normal raw doesnt because no special mention of being able to do so is specified.

My opinion is that "normal RAW" is being read overly restrictively. At least, by changing the target of the spell from "living creature" in the less powerful version to "creature" in the more powerful version, we know that the more powerful spell works on Undead.

And when you compare the wording:


https://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/po...hAnyObject.htm

This spell functions like polymorph, except that it changes one object or creature into another.

https://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/polymorph.htm

This spell functions like alter self, except that you change the willing subject into another form of living creature.

it seems fairly unambiguous that the "living creature" restriction, on what you can turn into, is dropped.