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Mage Armor is conjuration, but Luminous Armor is thankfully not, if your game has some support for BoED. Yeah, there are some broken things in there (Vow of Poverty comes to mind as not working as promised except in a few situations like Incarnum), but it does have some pretty good stuff in it...

Craven gets him an extra 6 damage on SA, but it does have a cost in the form of lower saves vs fear, so you might be able to use that against him here and there. Daring Outlaw is one of the ways to make swashbuckler actually be a worthwhile class past 3 levels. Going past that it really is...

I first encountered the word "gish" on the BG forums. I could tell right off the usage there was a fighter/mage type, but I wanted to know the history of it so I asked around a bit and found out it started with describing githyanki specifically. I voted #2 because I find it a quick and easy...

Given your goal for optimizing, you might be better off posting over at MinMaxBoards if you want really in depth advice. However, some quick things: You'll want to sit down with your DM and nail down exactly how Eldritch Glaive works. A reason for this is if you can use Power Attack with it...

Considering there are stats for elf warriors and such, it's not all that difficult to just toss a warrior level or something on an LA 0 race and go from there. Take a look in the DMG where it goes over the NPC classes. The descriptions start on page 103.

If you want to see if any wizard ACFs can do that, I recommend looking at http://www.minmaxboards.com/index.php?topic=8732.0.

So the maneuver system is "complicated and confusing" but the Vancian spell system isn't? And bookloads of highly specific spells aren't a pain to deal with? One of the reasons ToB tends to be lauded by many higher-op players is because it gives melee similar options to spellcasting and also...

And it's one of the more reasonable ones, provided the DM is being honest about it. Let's face it, D&D 3.X has such a large library of materials that keeping track of things can definitely be overwhelming.

ToB has two big reasons to be banned that sometimes go hand in hand: 1. The DM isn't familiar with it, and thus can't work around it, so banning its use means the DM simply doesn't have to deal with a whole new system. 2. There is a "mundanes can't get nice things" mentality where the people...

The wording of Spell Theft is pretty clear. Any spell affecting the target (that you could also have in the first place) can be ripped off, and that would include "target: personal" spells too. The usual thinking on Knowledge Devotion I've seen is its attack bonus applies on all attacks...

Trying to apply real-world physics to D&D is a house rule. If it works for you and your players, great. But it is patently moronic to try and push it on others. The game has its own sets of (sometimes inconsistent) laws, and those should be the ones worked with. Trying to fit our...

There is no way to quicken maneuvers. The Horizon Walker PrC can get Dimension Door once every 1d4 rounds, but it's still a standard action and you have to take 6 levels in the class to get there. The Sun School feat plays well with teleporting/shadow pouncing. You might be able to get more...

If you're going to go with cleric, don't even think about hopping in to dwarven defender. Actually, don't even think about going DD period. Spellcasting is so much better than DD. That and if you're going to try and tank stuff, you absolutely need to be mobile and benefiting from dwarven...

That's because the books themselves rarely if ever mention that since it's a player term. The player base has taken it very much to heart, however, and it is a mainstay in the 3.X lexicon and will always remain so because it's that deeply rooted and easy to use. GiTP certainly has it going on...

The basic CR system tries to assume you've got some good magic items for your level and such. Which means that in a low wealth game, the DM has to compensate by lowering the CR on monsters a bit so you can actually do something decent. I have a feeling your current DM likely hasn't adjusted...

Gish no longer refers to the specific races and instead means it can do both magic and smashing pretty well. And in 3.X's case, the gith races are usually a bad idea for casters (and gishes who rely even indirectly on spellcasting) due to the LA unless it can be bought off, and even then...

Come to think of it, Knockdown, Knockback, and the various ways to effectively get Improved Grab (like Scorpion's Grasp) do tend to be a bit annoying to get due to either feat investment or specific ACFs that might be thought of as a hindrance, especially if multiclass XP penalties are in play.

http://dndtools.eu/feats/categories/reserve/ has a list of all the published reserve feats, though I expect there's at least one Dragon Mag issue where they exist as well. But yes, Ragmon's right. They're only in CM or CCh. Danny's also right in that they can be taken as a wizard's bonus feat.

Strictly speaking it doesn't seem like it would since Wild Cohort doesn't grant any spell sharing ability. However, I imagine a willing DM could OK them working together.

Take a look at this Totemist handbook. It should answer all your questions.