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Rogue 3/Swashbuckler 3/Fighter 4 is a nice combo. You lose two of the feats I listed in the pure Fighter rundown above (Six fewer levels of fighter, but you do get Weapon Finesse for free). Given that combo, I might look at dropping Dodge and Mobility if you don't plan to pick up a Prestige...

So... archer, fighter, and utility wizard with some combat potential, but no harmful spells... Cleric would probably help the group out quite a bit, plus it'd be useful against undead. A sorcerer might not be bad; the arcadian ranger can probably handle a good deal of utility spells, leaving...

Here's a basic way to do it, with a few thoughts on varying it based on class levels, or if you want to fight with two weapons. I'm using the elite array, the PHB, the DMG and Complete Warrior, btw (since those are what happen to be on my desk at the moment). I'm also presenting a bit more of...

Pick up the Devoted Inquisitor feat (Complete Adventurer) - if you sneak attack and smite someone at the same time, they have to make a will save or be stunned. If you do hang around long enough to get the mount, pick up Mounted Combat, Mounted Archery, and Improved Mounted Archery (Complete...

Just curious... what does your high school physics teacher say about the levitating in the first place?

Yup. Just because it amused me so much, I went and made a half-celestial goblin paladin after that post. Great stats (Str 16, Dex 12, Con 16, Int 12, Wis 17, Cha 17, using the elite array), all the special abilities, but just 13 hit points. Like I said, more along the lines of strange and...

Without his head, he can't cast any of those spells either.

Well... there's the Troglodyte (2 HD, +2 LA). Darkvision, +4 Con, and +6 Natural Armor are nice. On the other hand, the stench and the name are some turnoffs... Hobgoblins provide +2 Dex, +2 Con, Darkvision, a bonus on Move Silently, and Fighter as their favored class, all for just +1 LA and...

Probably true. So, the only people who are going to be targeting a wizard's staff are... 1) People who have the specific knowledge to know that doing so can cripple the wizard - and are confident that the wizard's most powerful counter won't take them out. Likely a small minority of the...

Yeah, I can just see thugs jumping at the chance to earn the ultimate ire of a powerful wizard.

Like: The class skills allow the Ranger to do everything he should, and there are enough points to go around. The weapons, light armor, and d8 hit die make the Ranger a solid combatant, while his favored enemy bonuses makes him very good against certain groups. Spells. Not a lot, not a huge...

Plus, unless all wizards and sorcs in a world get bonuses from their staffs, an opponent would still need a reason to sunder the staff... rather than, say, the wizard or sorc.

The PHB II has a Metamagic Specialist option for Sorcerers, and an Immediate Magic option for Wizards, both of which take the place of a familiar.

PHB II has one that trades the mount for extra damage when you charge and smite.

My point was that most of the class names are titles that members of those class may attribute to themselves. Yes, they might refer to themselves as something else (not every, or even the majority of fighters, might think of themselves as a "fighter"), but, for the most part, they wouldn't deny...

I think there are a few reasons to not like the name. First, if barbarian applies to a foreign and inferior culture, why would any barbarian refer to themselves by that name? Second, barbarian has a number of negative connotations that go beyond a strict dictionary definition. It tends to...

I don't know many barbarians by *any* name that smell like roses.

Complete NPC - Complete Commoner may be a tad light, but this would cover all the NPC classes.

Dislike: Trap Sense. Not sure why, it just never clicked as being a Barbarian type thing for me. At lower levels, it can be a bit difficult to pick when to rage. The alignment and illiteracy are a bit annoying, since the really pigeonhole the barbarian as a wild savage. Like: Honestly? Just...

I went with a multiclass build to increase your fighting potential (and also lets you get two-weapon fighting without a 15 Dexterity). It does limit your spellcasting and some of your Paladin abilities; feel free to drop to 2 levels of fighter and 1 of Ranger to get 11 levels of Paladin. Also...