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Cold desert? Party level 13-15? How about a Brown Dragon (Monsters of Faerun). According to Draconomicon, any true dragon takes no ill effects of temperature up to 140 F and down to -40 F. As for your potentially tactics-limited party, the Brown Dragon does not have wings, so cannot fly, and...

What about the Phantom template from MM5? Though it does not change the creature's type, it gives it some incorporeal properties. The Dryad would get the lesser abilities, but if you gave her two class levels, her base CR would become 5, and she would gain the greater abilities. Also, look...

The Song Dragon from Monsters of Faerun (slightly updated in the PGtF web enhancement) has an alternate form ability that reads: The Alternate Form ability in the SRD/MM states: The Song Dragon has the Frightful Presence Extraordinary attack. Normally in 3.5 a creature would lose such an...

It actually wouldn't be too bad if he went with the Precocious Apprentice Focused Specialist for his first wizard level. Precocious Apprentice gives you a single 2nd level spell slot (with contingent activation), and then Focused Specialist transforms that spell slot into two spell slots of...

Interesting. I hadn't realized that conjuration spells in 3.0 didn't generally overcome SR.

I don't have the time right at this moment to build a full build, but I can answer some of your questions. Indeed, CR and ECL are two different things. If you want an ECL 14 creature, then 6 levels of Sorcerer is the most you can get. Yes, the only prereq's for Shock Trooper are Power Attack...

Indeed, that is a fairly decent fix for a purely 3.5 game.

Yeah, one of the reasons Archers just plain RULED in 3.0 Buy the Wizard a 3rd level Pearl of Power, and have him give you 50 magical arrows each day.

For ideas on the machinations of a near-immortal vampire, look at Strahd in Expedition to Castle Ravenloft. Heck, just google for threads about how to run Strahd correctly.

I've never run it, but I REALLY liked "Beyond the Veil" by Penumbra Press. Monte Cook wrote it, and I thought it was a pretty ingenious idea. I even had an idea to weave it in with the original blue adventure line (tying Ashardalon into it), but have never had the opportunity to run it yet...

Well, a Minotaur Sorcerer 13 is a CR 14 creature. With only the standard array, he'll have only started with a 13 Charisma, though; using all his stat bumps, he'll just have gotten to Charisma 16, and thus able to use all his spell levels. If you go with point buy (especially higher point buy)...

I run a 3.5 game, but fairly extensively house-rule things back to 3.0 (polymorph line of spells, magical DR, can power attack with light weapons, keen and improved critical stack) It hasn't been an issue. I use the 3.5 amount of reduction for the damage reduction, but the "magic" part of DR...

From the SRD: Special Abilities :: d20srd.org In your example, assume you had a Strength of 14 (+2 modifier), and BAB of +8. Assume you use a medium longsword and both your natural attacks deal 1d4 base damage. You could attack with a longsword and you bite, and your tail at the following...

Good option for Shadow Mastiffs. Not such a good option for Shadow Dragons (which move at 120+ feet per round, and are always hiding...) Just Say'n

Yes, but glitterdust also don't alter the fact he has total concealment. Glitterdust essentially works vs invisibility because it is giving the target a -40 to hide checks. In the middle of combat invisibility only gives a +20 to hide, so the foe is basically at -20 to hide while...

Sounds like Nature's Warrior from Complete Warrior.

Listen will help. To pinpoint the square the foe is in you have to beat the creature's move silently check by 20. Blind Fighting would be good. Leveling the playing field also helps (though mist spells only give the PC's a 20% miss chance when up close, but they can get "lost in the fog" so...

Hmmm... Supernatural Abilities don't have "levels," only caster levels. The effect is most similar to displacement, but more powerful, meaning is should effectively be higher than a 2nd level effect... Hmmm... dunno if faerie fire works.

Right, sorry, meant to list those. Sadly, my players don't have any of that right now. Though the Druid could wildshape into a dire bat...if he thought of it. That would help him, at least.

Looking at running my 9th level PC's against a pack of Shadow Mastiffs. Shadow Mastiffs have Shadow Blend: The pack will attack on a moon-lit night. Two of the party members have darkvision, one had low-light vision, and one is human. Now, breaking down the shadow blend ability we find that...