Judas's starting trinkets are for sure the best balanced additions and even feel like they'd fit in the base game. It's so silly despite being the "Satanist" character it's literally the worst idea to go for Devil Deals as him. Also, Tainted Isaac starting with Dice Bag and Jacob and Esau starting with their trinkets also feels like something that'd work well in the base game, they fit right in. There are, however. quite a few characters whose starting trinkets either don't fit or make the character too op, which are the following:

- Azazel starting with Tape Worm is a boring addition to an already OP character, I think it'd make more sense to give him something else rather than to remove part of what makes him special.

- Apollyon starting with Locust of Conquest is fitting, especially given the odd lack of anything locust related for his base character, but also feels like it goes against his simple design and starting items.

- The Forgotten starting with Crow's Heart makes him crazy OP, probably the biggest starting trinket issue out of any of them. I feel very strongly that this needs changed.

- Giving any character Sigil of Baphomet is going to make them op, thus giving it to Tainted Judas throws off the balance.

- Tainted Lazarus's starting trinkets are an outlier. as instead of being too op I think he actually deserved a lot better starting trinkets giving his difficulty. I'd say scrap both the ones he starts with and try some other ones.

- I'm not sure how I feel about T. Forgotten starting with Polished Bone, it fits but it's also just such a good trinket it feels like it'll affect the gameplay more than it should.

- Tainted Apollyon starting with Bat-Wing is such a cool idea, but I think him starting with Cricket Leg would make him too strong and make gameplay messier with a bunch of locusts randomly spawning. I'd say switch bat-wing to his permanent trinket and then think of a different one for his held.

Alright, that's all of my feedback, thanks for looking.

I appreciate the feedback! I'll take these into consideration for the next patch. You'll also go into the mod credits!

Love the ideas in this mod, find them super smart. For tainted lost, for him having cracked crown which actually is really good and a cool idea, i think removing his starting holy card would be pretty balanced, by making him a even bigger glass cannon

Aswell as removing the poster effect

Update v1.1 is out! Thanks for the feedback thus far.

Originally posted by Kalightortaio:

Update v1.1 is out! Thanks for the feedback thus far.

I gotta say, the changes you made in the most recent update are PERFECT! I love them, so much so I'll go over my original critiques and show how each one was fixed.

- Azazel now starting with missing page is a great addition to his demon persona and also is well balanced.

- Apollyon starting with strange key is great and fits with his character theme imo.

- You did something interesting with The Forgotten, you actually made him harder, which is interesting. Finger bone helps balance it out a bit, but I'll need to do a run with it before I'm sure about the change.

- The left hand is a much more interesting and less op trinket to give Tainted Judas.

- Tainted Lazarus now starting with an inherit Cancer is sooo good, bro needed the buff. Endless nameless also makes complete sense and is an underutilized trinket anyways.

- Tainted Forgotten starting with Hollow Heart is interesting. I think I'm gonna have to playtest this one out too.

- Tainted Apollyon now having a built in bat-wing as well as starting with callus is perfection. Perfect perfection. Perfecto.

Hello!! Firstly, amazing mod! makes Steam Deck TBOI feel so much better! I can't 100% speak for everyone, but as a tainted Laz enjoyer, endless nameless has been so much fun, but lazy worm for dead laz still feels a bit off, great mod overall! I've reccomended it to more than one friend!

Thanks! If you have a better trinket suggestion for dead laz, let me know! I'm glad the mod improves your experience of the base game.