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Well, if you can use a dwarf variant that gets +2 con and -2 dex, that'd be pretty solid. (Most of these are campaign world specific, such as to Forgotten Realms or Arcanis.) That way you could keep your charisma from having a big penalty, and wearing heavy armor you don't need that much dex...

In larger cities, I allow pretty much free access to things that I deem to be common items (things lots of people would want). Resistance, stats, common martial weapons (longsword, greatsword, composite longbow, etc.), common armors (chain shirt or full plate), wands of CLW, rings of...

Not a big problem. Oversized two-weapon fighting is OK, but it's not a huge damage option. It's also expensive to enchant two weapons. With the way the game is currently constructed, off-hand weapons just don't add enough damage to be worthwhile without some sort of boost. That boost can...

I wouldn't worry too much about it. For one thing, the DMG wealth values are often a little on the low end anyway, since they assume a rather large chunk of wealth gained at previous levels has been lost (either in consumables or selling of unwanted items). That depends somewhat on your...

We had this character in a campaign we played. He also had a marshall level for a nice +8 initiative bonus. Our fighters loved loved loved it. I believe we treated it like damage doubling on a crit - add all the bonuses and double it at the end - which obviously makes it even more effective...

Spell Compendium is the newer source, so it takes precedence.

In part, what makes a good tank depends on what you're tanking for. Not at the basic level (figure out how to take a hit and dish it out), but at a secondary level. If you're tanking for a group that has a lot of high damage ranged options, you're going to need a little less offense, but some...

The only thing amusing to me about bodaks is the power of a lone bodak to completely hose over a cavalry charge. The 16th level fighter/paladin/cavalier sets his lance and charges, laughs off the gaze attack with his +23 Fort save, and then remembers that his horse is only +6. Oops.

No feats that I'm aware of (except some 1st level only feats, I half-recall). Magic items (goggles of night, belt of dwarvenkind), spells (darkvision and low light vision), and many prestige classes (horizon walker, shadowdancer, and ruathar, for example).

If I were the DM, I'd probably just charge an extra point of level adjustment for the size increase and allow it. For a one-shot where everybody's a holy dog anyway, there doesn't seem to be too much reason to sweat the fine details of balancing such things.

With no magic and that party composition, it doesn't surprise me a bit that the PCs got shredded. It's a straight up brawl in an arena, so how much use are the stealth abilities of 60% of the party? Zip. And the spellthief is especially hosed. Lions not only pounce, but they improved grab...

Three things: 1) Most reserve feats seem a little underpowered, if anything, to me. 2) I'd be willing to bet that most of the folks here who suggest that it be obvious that the ability is coming from the PC wouldn't think twice about letting, for example, a disguised kyton use its animate...

Yet more circumstantial evidence: the new version of Fires of Purity. It no longer has a variable effect, because the old version could be empowered, and that was considered to be a little too strong.

You say you don't want a DMM Persistent twink, but not all uses of DMM are so abusive. I like DMM Rapid for a summoner to make summoning actually viable. I've also seen DMM Twin for a blaster cleric. Kinda neat. If you're looking for something a little different, you might try the cloistered...

Given that your player is considering Forge Ring as one of the crafting feat options for this, you're playing a fairly high level campaign. I don't see unlimited low level healing as a problem for such a game. Even at 2d8+3 (average 12) it's not fast enough to matter a bit in combat, so it's...

I've played this sort of character and trust me, it has plenty of drawbacks that will become apparent in the course of normal campaign play. My rogue ended up putting all his stat bumps in strength and picking up Power Attack at 12th level, just so he could play all the time instead of sitting...

One of the favorite ones I've seen was "Cast Tenser's Transformation if I make a melee attack with my sword." (He kept a special weapon, distinct from the dagger he usually used for aoos, to trigger this contingency.)

I've tended to put in specific encounters and relationships in which PCs can buy or sell things at other than standard prices. For example, in the last campaign I ran, I had an acquaintance of the PCs introduce them to a friend of his, an arcane archer who'd lost his magic bow. To raise funds...

Spellthief, correctly built, can be amazingly potent. We had one in our Age of Worms campaign, and it was just wrong. So very versatile - and on anything that it could sneak attack (which included undead and constructs for him), he would strip it of all its significant abilities in no time...

The Player's Guide to Arcanis features several monk variants. They're a little bit world specific, but nothing that can't be adapted fairly easily. These include changes to the base monk class, as well as monk specfic prestige classes.