On the subject of taint...

[Mandar]

Currently I'm in a game with heavy taint. Like anywhere you go its likely to get a point of taint. From touching tainted treasure (which is every treasure) to doing anything slightly corrupt or deprave. So, what I'm asking is does anyone have any advice on what to do? I know this is not a lot of information so ask if you need to know anymore. Thanks.

- Manny

[Eurus]

Take the Pure Soul feat for taint immunity, if it's that important.

[Giggling Ghast]

Try drinking darkspawn blood.

Seriously, I don't know what you do. That sounds kind of ridiculous.

[Boci]

There's a feat from Heroes of Horror that render's you immune to taint. Only preq is you yourself be untainted.

[dextercorvia]

1. Necropolitan
2. Tainted Scholar

[Mandar]

Sorry! I forgot to mention the DM banned the Pure Soul feat.

[The Glyphstone]

This sounds like one of the like, three situations ever, where Tainted Scholar isn't considered to be Overkill. That assumes you're a caster though, you didn't tell us anything about your character.

[erikun]

Here you go, in case you didn't know that the SRD had a section on Taint. Basically, it sounds like you'll need magical healing to get rid of the Taint, or at least get it down to a managable degree. You can also buy items to absorb taint, depending on your DM.

The other option is the Tainted Sorcerer prestige class, in the same link, which powers your spellcasting via your taint score. Of course, you get more taint that way too...

[balistafreak]

Currently I'm in a game with heavy taint. Like anywhere you go its likely to get a point of taint. From touching tainted treasure (which is every treasure) to doing anything slightly corrupt or deprave. So, what I'm asking is does anyone have any advice on what to do? I know this is not a lot of information so ask if you need to know anymore. Thanks.

- Manny

1. STOP whatever hopes and dreams you had of your previous class. Now that you have been tainted, you have only one path that does not end in madness. You can choose to give in, or you can walk the path to redemption.

2. Kill yourself while impeaching the gods to give you strength against your madness.
2a. By which I mean die in the process of becoming a Necropolitan.
2b. Congratulations, you are now immune to all the negative effects of Taint.

3. Take levels in a full-casting arcane class. Retrain as much as you can away - your past is unimportant, only your future.

4. Take your first level of Tainted Scholar.
4a. Embrace your Depravity. Get it to >9000.
4b. Your foresight in becoming immune to Taint means that you now have >9000 spells to cast a day.

5. Go forth and purge the Taint that once infected you from this world.

6. For the lulz, take Exalted feats and become a Saint.
6a. Rise above the clutches of the darkness and shine forever as a beacon of hope to all.

"Sainted Scholar" for the win.

[Eloi]

Die, and let yourself be raised by tainted items. Then, you can take a Tainted Prestige Class automatically. You will not only be immune to taint as you have embraced it, but everything else as you are an Undead.

https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=...MWRmODAw&hl=en

[ShneekeyTheLost]

1. STOP whatever hopes and dreams you had of your previous class. Now that you have been tainted, you have only one path that does not end in madness. You can choose to give in, or you can walk the path to redemption.

2. Kill yourself while impeaching the gods to give you strength against your madness.
2a. By which I mean die in the process of becoming a Necropolitan.
2b. Congratulations, you are now immune to all the negative effects of Taint.

3. Take levels in a full-casting arcane class. Retrain as much as you can away - your past is unimportant, only your future.

4. Take your first level of Tainted Scholar.
4a. Embrace your Depravity. Get it to >9000.
4b. Your foresight in becoming immune to Taint means that you now have >9000 spells to cast a day.

5. Go forth and purge the Taint that once infected you from this world.

6. For the lulz, take Exalted feats and become a Saint.
6a. Rise above the clutches of the darkness and shine forever as a beacon of hope to all.

"Sainted Scholar" for the win.

This.

Hey, if your GM is running a railroad game wherein everyone ends up tainted, you may as well max maximum benefit for it...

[Mandar]

Okay, I guess I wasn't thinking right... I'll give you ALOT of info considering its really important...

My current character, Mandar (Hence the name) is an archivist 8/tainted scholar 3. The DM allowed it to be applied to divine casters and can use taint to fuel the spells. I currently have around 50 points of taint. Since the DM made the taint a little homebrew I'm still alive and partially sane. However in about 10 more points, or if my wisdom drops my taint will either kill me or make me insane. Like I said before, taint fuels my spells. Bonus spells are 10+1/4 Depravity Score, and Saving throws are 10+ 1/5 Corruption Score. I have about 40 Dep. and 10 Cor. (I know, unbalanced). My problem is that I want to keep playing this character because I've put so much time and fluff into him, but it seems like he's about to die from taint.

[Mandar]

Oh! And I'm CG, I want to still help my party (Which is CG-LG).

[erikun]

Necropolitan. Any undead will do, but going through the ritual for Necropolitan is the easiest and has no LA.

[Mandar]

Where can I find Necroplitan? I love PDF's :)

[PersonMan]

Oh! And I'm CG, I want to still help my party (Which is CG-LG).

Simple.

To help all of those who are with me...to aid those who depend upon me in combat...I must make a sacrifice, to purge the evil from this world, by using evil against itself! I am but a drop in a river, but with this power I can stop the flow of death, and turn back the tides of fate!

Then follow through with the aforementioned steps.

Necropolitan is in Libris Mortis(AKA the Book of Bad Latin).

[ShneekeyTheLost]

Where can I find Necroplitan? I love PDF's :)

The mods, however, don't.

[PersonMan]

Where can I find Necroplitan? I love PDF's :)

You love PDF's what? What does this "PDF" have that you love?

Apostrophes have rights.

[Umael]

Stay out of the Shadowlands.

[Boci]

Where can I find Necroplitan? I love PDF's :)

Under templates on crystalkeep.com.

[Scorpions__]

Ba! Hahahahahaha!!!





DM[F]R

[The Glyphstone]

Where can I find Necroplitan? I love PDF's :)

It's printed in Libris Mortis: The Book of Bad Latin Undead.

[Eloi]

It's printed in Libris Mortis: The Book of Bad Latin Undead.

The Book of Bad Latin is "Jus Dident Giv Duo Phucces Abutda Lingua".

[PersonMan]

It's printed in Libris Mortis: The Book of Bad Latin Undead.

It's the Book of Undead, and within it is the ghost of Good Latin, corrupted by vile necromantic forces into the beast that feeds upon grammar...Bad Latin.

[DragoonWraith]

For those not getting this, "The Book of the Dead" would be "Liber Mortis" in Latin. "Libris Mortis" would sort of be "for the Books of the Dead" or "from the Books of the Dead", though in both cases it really makes absolutely no sense in a title as opposed to a full sentence.

[PersonMan]

For those not getting this, "The Book of the Dead" would be "Liber Mortis" in Latin. "Libris Mortis" would sort of be "for the Books of the Dead" or "from the Books of the Dead", though in both cases it really makes absolutely no sense in a title as opposed to a full sentence.

I don't know, "NAME: from the Books of the Dead" sounds pretty cool to me. Or just "From the Books of the Dead".

[Yora]

It's not "coming out of" but "belonging to".

"Dead's Book's" would be the closest english translation, I think.

[deuxhero]

Go go tainted scholar!

[PersonMan]

It's not "coming out of" but "belonging to".

"Dead's Book's" would be the closest english translation, I think.

Still sounds cool. Just add "the" and you have a good title.

[Yora]

But Libris is genitive case and genitive case can never stand alone. "XYZ Libris" is "XYZ of the Book". As "ABC Mortis" is "ABC of the Dead".
Libris Mortis is not just sounding stupid, it's gramatically impossible. "Belongs to the book that belongs to the dead" is no noun.