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At high levels, moderate amounts of DR are completely useless. Not just slightly useless. Completely useless. Above, say, 12th level or so, there will not be more than 1 level-appropriate encounter in 100 where having DR 3/whatever actually makes any difference.

On the "you are immune to that particular X's Y for 24 hours" thing: It's probably there to prevent abuse. Clever players could just get ahold of one of the monsters they're bound to face a lot this day (by summoning/binding one, capturing one, charming/dominating one...

As you level up, different kinds of defenses become the most important. At low levels, AC is probably your most worthwhile line of defense, since it can outright prevent the most common effects that might take you out of a fight (i.e. incoming attacks). Good HP are important, but will run out...

I love your understated, precise, and non-fussy style, Klaus, thanks a lot for sharing these! I hadn't seen your art before, and I must say I'm very much impressed with your talent (not that I could really judge it, being no artist myself). For years now, I found most D&D artworks heavily...

Depends on what your PCs want. For some, simply more power/glory/money/magic/ale can be enough. For others, there's good motivation hidden in their back story: change the past to unmake a tragic mistake in the PC's youth; find love instead of bitterness with someone they used to be close to but...

Good necromancer options in a situation like this (how high level are your baddies anyway?): 1. Lord of the Uttercold feat, to go with cold-substituted Fireballs. Skeleton (and other cold-immune undead) minions are actually healed by this, so the necromancers can just shoot into the melee. 2...

ftfy.

You could also have an NPC with just the right spells drop in, some legendary efreeti-hunter for example: "Ladies & Gentlemen, I, Yappy McColdmage, Gentleman Adventurer, heard you had problems with an Efreeti? This here specimen is far too weak to warrant my full, personal attention, yet I shall...

Actually, Greenfield, there is no problem here at all. The Planar Binding and Planar Ally spell lines both make use of Calling effects, not Summoning. Planar Binding does NOT have a Summoning spell as its basis! Reread the calling and summoning subschools of the Conjuration school in the PHB to...

Good old blackmail. Any player who writes out a detailed background is just asking for it, after all... :devil:

Oracles cast spells off the Cleric list...

Just to make sure you don't go wrong there in the future: Sorcerers cannot learn new spells from scrolls. Never could, never will. Neither can any other spontaneous casters (Bards, Oracles, Inquisitors, Summoners). Apart from that, your build is looking good. May I chime in with Herobizkit and...

Oh, well, can never get entirely rid of dem metagamers... sigh! Although I must admit my main group is by now more or less fully housetrained in the "don't assume stuff is gonna follow any tropes" department. But my secondary group is metagaming like crazy sometimes, and not always smartly so...

Where Undead are concerned, I used an advanced Dust Wight (MM III) to great effect. It headed a troupe of non-advanced ones. Watch out for the petrification if you don't want your group to encounter that kind of thing. An Earth Necromental (Libris Mortis) or four might also work fine, since...

And throw in some partially charged wands for good measure, to show that Monks are really THE anti-mage in the game... EDIT: to also help instead of snarking only: Faerûn-specific magic solutions are the Mage-Killer from Magic of Faerûn (basically just a full mage focused a little on...

Hussar: What exactly are you trying to do here? Posting long (and actually quite lucid) comments on how other people probably never had that exact experience they're describing, or how their DM did a bad job - how is this contributing to the discussion at hand (namely, casters do run out of...

Crafting Pearl of Power takes Caster Level 17... so not an option.

Yeah, that reminds me of the fight when I (accidentally! That's my story, and I'm sticking to it!) nuked said Sorceress. I spent three rounds hanging in the air, invisible, doing nothing, waiting until the similarly invisible big bad would appear (no See Invisible for either one of us). Rest of...

My Evoker has maxed out Intimidate (cross-class, but good Cha), and can often apply a 1-round-debuff on a single enemy that's a little better than just aiding another. If my spells run out, that is, which has happened maybe twice in the campaign, and I was lower level then than I am now. I don't...

Yeah, well, you're doing it wrong, to be frank. BAB gives a maximum of 4 attacks, at progressively weaker (by -5) attack bonuses. TWF gives 1 more attack at your highest attack bonus, but you take a penalty of -2 to all attacks taken that round. ITWF gives another attack at -5 on top of that...