When I rebased mine I just used a big fingernail clipper - it worked really well too, allowed for cutting very close to the pegs or whatever of the figure.
Any fantasy RPG-like game that includes fantastic races (Dwarf, Elf, halfling included), swords and magic, with a focus on adventure, which includes, but is not limited to Killing monsters and taking their stuff.
The only way to get something resembling a companion is with a number of creature generating items in Adventurer's Vault - but this isn't a long-term solution since that's a daily item power.
Beastmasters actually make pretty decent two-weapon fighters, they just can't use two versatile weapons...
If you want to be an Eladrin Noble, then if your DM says its ok, you're a noble. Nobles have the exact same racial traits as regular eladrin.
Same thing if you wanted to be the human son of a Duke, or Sir Wally of Wessex. Except noble Eladrin have titles like Ghaele.
I dunno, you need to find something that makes you feel oppressed or evokes deserts.
Off the top of my head, something like tribal drumming, classic arabian music... or something like the soundtrack to the mummy, and its sequels.
Go by the order of the lines of the power, unless there is specifically something that is "Before" and/or "after" the attack.
Pg 214 of PHB 3:
"Sequence: The order of information in a power description is a general guide to the sequence in which the power's effects occur. For example, an...
the only major differences between 4E and 3.5 are additions, not subtractions.
Add Baator, Eladrin/Feyspires, Dragonborn, etc
Also the planes work exactly the same as they did before, but also have an additional model to view them in addition to the orrery model.
I really don't know why people aren't really mentioning it, but the Eberron Campaign Setting and also Sharn: City of Towers were two of the best roleplaying game books ever published, for any system. The only thing I like better than the ECS is the 4E Eberron Campaign Guide...
But for 3.5 it...
Really the only things you NEED are Fighter/Mage/Rogue/Priest, luckily they fall along the lines of the important tropes of Defender/Controller/Striker/Healer
People actually like Green Skinned Goblins? Ugh
Goblins should be yellow/brownish
Also for the people talking about Genasi, there is a third one, for a Fire Genasi back from the Giants of Legend set.
The old "bonus tools" Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game Official Home Page - Article () (encounter builder and the old monster builder and ability generator) were flash
but there isn't even a link to these anymore really.
When the player who had been playing the group's cleric started coming less and less (and eventually confirmed she wouldn't be playing for a good while) I made up the character as a companion character. There were up and downs with her being an NPC - some of the players didn't like her power...
Giving a newbie extra points is a great idea actually, hopefully it will be something they will get to next time (ie Get Your First DCI/RPGA number 3 pts)