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Which of the following is the right interpretation of the Planar Wild Shape feat from UC?
A) You add the fiendish or celestial template as described in Bestiary 1 including a +2 to confirm crits as described in the feat.
B) You only add the +2 to confirm crits?
Planar Wild Shape
Prerequisite: Wild shape class feature, Knowledge (planes) 5 ranks.
Benefit: When you use wild shape to take the form of an animal, you can expend an additional daily use of your wild shape class feature to add the celestial template or fiendish template to your animal form. (Good druids must use the celestial template, while evil druids must use the fiendish template.) If your form has the celestial template and you score a critical threat against an evil creature while using your form’s natural weapons, you gain a +2 bonus on the attack roll to confirm the critical hit. The same bonus applies if your form has the fiendish template and you score a critical threat against a good creature.
FAQ'ed completely unclear how this will work, it seems too strong if the entire template is applied and a bit too weak if it is just the +2 to confirm crits.
Hit the FAQ button myself but i think that you get the template and the +2 to confirm crits.
I'd be really surprised if it's not Option A. But good question.
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somehow I agree with all of you. The terminology is pretty clear: add the appropriate template, which refers specifically to the templates presented in the Bestiary. The weirdness occurs once we reach the second part of the feat.
Why add the text about +2 to crit confirmation?
Either because adding the templates didn't seem powerful enough, which is weird, because it is. Or because we are inventing a completely new kind of feat specific templates, which only adds +2 to crit against opposite alignments, which is really crappy for a lvl. 5 feat and completely muddles the water in regards to what templates is, thereby throwing the terminology off in any reference to templates.
I don't like any of the options, but A in my first post is preferable to B in my opinion.
So I guess the benefits of being celestial/fiendish is based off your HD just as if you summoned creatures with the template.
I would imagine it's all the benefits and get a +2 to confirm criticals. It would be some pretty weird wording if it they said for you to add the template... but not actually add the template.