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No, they don't both grant an armor bonus. One is an armor bonus, the other is an enhancement bonus to an armor bonus. Those are explicitly different as the rules I linked to show since they are different modifiers. What would need interpreting is whether the enhancement bonus being applied to...

Depends on how one interprets the modifier type rules. Note that an enhancement bonus is strictly different from whatever it's actually enhancing. In this case with a VoP druid without any clothes on it doesn't seem to make any difference. The character isn't actually wearing armor, thus MV...

Somatic components are found under the "weapons and armor proficiency" heading for warlocks on page 7 in Complete Arcane. The specific wording is: "Because the somatic components required for warlock invocations are relatively simple, a warlock can use any of his invocations while wearing light...

I hope the player didn't try to pass off the petal as a regular LA +2? It specifically has a (cohort) entry next to it, meaning it's not suitable for players to play, but as a cohort through Leadership and the like the game says it's fine.

The unfortunate truth is that many of the questions you're asking aren't actually covered in the rules (or if they are it might still be ambiguous), but I'll go over my knowledge of each in turn. AoO: Yes, it provokes an AoO. However, since it is a reach weapon it usually won't provoke an AoO...

There's no rage on my side (I don't dare get angry lately since I'd be liable to throw up), but I'm just trying to point out the example was odd given the (lack of) workings in D&D. The spell granting claw attacks to something that normally doesn't have them seems more straightforward and much...

Then congratulations on adding yet another "must be realistic" kind of thing to D&D? If the spell says it grants the target usable claw attacks, then the creature gains them through whatever means would work. That might be a shoulder adjustment in this case, or something else. The point is...

A creature doesn't need to be able to stand on its hind legs to have or make claw attacks. See the lion for example. It's just the kit of the wolf to normally not have claw attacks (worth statting out at least), but casting a spell that grants it claw attacks isn't a stretch at all given how...

I'm not so sure about mixing forms, but switching quickly between different ones can be achieved through at least two PrCs: The Master of Many Forms from Complete Adventurer and the Warshaper from Complete Warrior.

Keep in mind that even an entry of "always" in the creature's alignment line doesn't mean there aren't rare cases when one changes. For example, the succubus paladin. I know of at least one way to make a fiendish creature Good-aligned: The Sanctified Creature template from Book of Exalted...

As mentioned, the character will lose all the Extraordinary abilities, but will keep the others. I wouldn't really call it being a jerk except in the case of the DM allowing everything to work before then turning back and saying "Nope, you don't get this stuff anymore." Whether it's...

Having just been poking around in it, there are 100 adventure ideas in the back of the 3.5 Races of the Wild. Some of them could definitely be useful given the scope ranges from huge to just small forests and such. "A pack of skeletal wolves haunts a woodland." for example. "A tribe of...

One of the big advantages to having a companion with Int 3+ that knows a language is the ranger doesn't have to bother with Handle Animal anymore because he can just tell it what he wants it to do and the companion will understand it.

There's no need for a ranger (or druid) to take a feat to gain a more powerful companion because gaining a more powerful companion is already built into the system by virtue of being able to acquire different animals based on the character's effective druid level. For example, if the character...

The feat I linked to is simply one to boost the ranger's effective druid level for the companion, which he'd probably take anyway if he wants the companion to be better and not lag too fr behind that it's a hindrance instead of a help. Though the pathfinder version of the feat is better since...

I'm not really a fan of facing when it comes to typical 3.5 D&D. It adds to much complexity in a game that already tends to be quite complex to play and run, although there are ways of simplifying it. I view the facing rules as neither heretical or prophetic. They're simply variant rules that...

Pathfinder wasn't mentioned at all in the OP, so anything from it might not be allowed.

The situation presented is an opportunity to explore what the various alignments actually mean both in the context of the game and perhaps in the context of real life. To some it might be pretty straightforward for whatever reason, but for others who want to delve deep into morality it...

The Urban Druid from Dragon 317 page 30 (or Dragon Compendium page 57, with companion rules on pages 60 and 61) can gain a small animated object as a companion. That's the only way I know of to straight up gain a construct as a companion for anything like a druid or ranger. Show it to your DM...

Regarding ACFs, there is no requirement whatsoever to take all of them presented in Sandstorm. I'd freely allow using any of those ACFs between Sandstorm and Dark Sun. They don't unbalance the game at all, and in fact make the character more flavorful and fluffy. Were you playing for me, I'd...