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We got around the evil cleric problem by using a cleric of Luthic (orc goddess, has the Healing domain), with Domain Sponteneity, for our evil campaign. There's at least one way to get around it without resorting to items, but we do that too, with wands of lesser vigor.

Dannyalcatraz, you seem to be under the impression that every class must be a valid choice for a VOP character. I don't see why you would make that assumption. If VOP means you're going to lose large chunks of your class abilities (as with wizards or clerics), that simply means that a VoP...

It's not that complex. It involves taking the Arcane Disciple feat, with the Summoner domain. You do need to choose a deity and alignment compatible with that domain. Other neat tricks to use with a dedicated summoner are the use of Unearthed Arcana's variant conjurer, who can summon faster...

I'm a big fan of Empower through the mid levels. At 10th level, your Cone of Cold takes a 5th level slot and does 35 damage on average. Your Empowered Fireball takes a 5th level slot for 52 damage on average. Pretty nice. Of course, at higher levels the bigger die cap on the higher level...

A build which uses only WotC material, but goes a bit deep into some of the books to do it, makes for a really viscious conjurer. Start out with a conjurer with a high Wisdom (in addition to whatever other stats you require). Worship a god that gives access to the Summoner domain (Complete...

The primary uses for the hexblade class seem to be in multiclass combos. It's a great base or certain prestige classes, such as the Dragon Disciple that somebody mentioned above, because it gets full BAB and arcane spellcasting starting at level 4. The other ability worth taking it for is...

I don't really see magic missile as all that great, in terms of even first level attack spells. It's usually the third thing my wizards prepare, after ray of enfeeblement and color spray (at high levels, it's 2x ray of enfeeblement, no color spray). It comes in just before one of the lesser...

The Player's Guide to Arcanis has a nice set of monk pclasses and monk orders (variations on the monk base class), including one with longsword ability. It's a pretty good book in general, with lots of interesting monk and paladin variants, and a ton of feats. It would take some work to port...

If your player is really concerned about speed, he'll pay the asking price. I've got a character for whom I invested 38,000 gp in a 40' speed boost. It fits what he needs to do. And, actually, it's mostly for overland travel. It's handy in combat (loop around into flanking positions or to...

The Living Greyhawk Journal had a pclass for glaive wielders. I don't recall whether it was one of the standalone issues or one of the ones in Dragon, however.

Sure. A) Change the d100*level days to something more reasonable. You can walk across Asia in 2 and a half years. Maybe 1d100*level miles or something. B) Allow magical travel aids. C) Eliminate the DC to learn. The only way to fail that DC is if you have 3.0 greater spell focus. And why...

The new war book, Heroes of Battle, has expanded rules for siege weapons, including magical weapons and ammunition and so forth.

We'll need a few more parameters than that, I think. Stat generation method, books allowed, your personal preferences for race, class or character type. That sort of thing. But, in the absence of further information - I've been toying around with a wood elf Wildrunner build, from Races of the...

If you're at all interested in non-core sources, The Player's Guide to Arcanis has a feat that allows tossing people around, and a pclass that specializes in doing it.

It's not broken. If anything, a little weak. It is a component in one rather broken build - the high level fighter/mage with Arcane Strike, Power Attack, and wraithstrike (combined with the War domain for divine power and righteous might). But it's just a part of that build, and all the parts...

So, I'm not real happy with the way the "Word" spells work in my game - Dictum, Holy Word, Blasphemy, and Word of Chaos. They're horribly unfun (either hugely devestating or utterly worthless, and way too big an AoE), and out of control when used in certain ways such as with caster level boosts...

There are a few in the Miniatures Handbook as well. Most of them are fairly worthless, but Distracting Attack is pretty good. Basically, if you attack somebody, all of your allies get +1 to hit that enemy for the next round. If two of you have it, you get a perpetual +1 to hit as long as you...

I don't think two monk levels are a good idea. Giving up two levels of spellcasting hurts. As a half-elf, especially with your charisma, you've got the makings of a diplomat, so take advantage of that. For feats, I'd recommend getting your required Skill Focus out of the way right now. That...

What I would suggest is that you build you encounters for a normal party of four characters, then increase the numbers by 3/4. If you simply treat the party as effectively higher level, you'll find yourself using creatures that have abilities that are horribly destructive to the PCs. If you...

When given a choice by the DM,* most groups I've played in divide things according to who needs it. Folks who didn't get something useful get things that they can sell for cash. We don't tend to pool resources except for specific purposes; one group just got some land and we're pooling to...