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There's things in video games that are extremely problematic (and so are usually skipped), that are simple to do in Pen&Paper. For instance, in Diablo 2, is the Wizard Greater invisible, flying, and dropping Fireballs on the Paladin from 300 feet up (Doable at 7th level for a Wizard in 3.5...

Not really. If everyone's on an even playing field, the DM can adjust quite easily, simply by using stronger/weaker monsters at them. The problem is more one of there being a rather large discrepancy in character power between different classes at high levels. With very little work needed...

Do note, however, that Wildshape works based on Alternate Form because of Errata to 3.5. You'll get the updated version in most copies of the SRD, and the last few printings of the PHB, but if he's got one of the first printings of the PHB, it'll say it's based on Polymorph, which doesn't...

Heh, pretty much. The pre-4th versions of D&D attempt to be reasonably simulationist (with the addition of magic and magical things) first, and have game-balance second. 4th edition seems to want to have game balance first, and be reasonably simulationist second - there's nothing fundamentally...

Let's see... Heretic of the Faith: Power of Faerun, page 46: "Without risk of loss of spells or class abilities" - some DM's might let it slide, but exactly as worded, it doesn't apply, as the Vow of Poverty isn't a spell or class ability (might work for Apostle of Peace, though). Gray Guard...

Complete Champion: Summon Holy Symbol. 1 Round/level, is a Cleric-0 spell. Except under relatively stretched readings of the rules (which you can get, and they're not specifically inaccurate, so check with your DM), it'll be fine for Vow of Poverty, as you're permitted to benefit from spells...

As mentioned in this thread, there's a couple of ways around the lack of a holy symbol when it's used as written. They just tie your character down in certain ways, and are campaign-dependent.

Definately: AC, Flurry, Evasion, Fast Movement Arguably: Improved Evasion And.... that's it, RAW. Slow Fall, interestingly, doesn't seem to list it.

Yeah. In some campaigns. Worldly Focus is a feat from Faiths of Eberron, that lets you cast spells with a Divine Focus without one. You have to be a worshiper of the Sovereign Host to qualify, though ... not that that's necessarily a bad thing, what with the wide variety of domain choices.

Straight out of the SRD: "The creature’s Hit Dice equal the number of class levels it has plus its racial Hit Dice. Additional Hit Dice gained from taking levels in a character class never affect a creature’s size like additional racial Hit Dice do. "

Two things: 1) That list was for the Divine Focus 2) The passage you're referencing refers to 'expensive material components' in sentence 1 of that paragraph, and the rest acts as a continuation. Not all DM's will consider that clause to also apply to expensive focuses (such as the Divine...

Glad to help. Be warned, though: Do not invest permanent resources (Feats, class levels) into grappling. Yes, I know this sounds strange with the suggestions I just gave, but there's a reason for it: See, in just a few more levels, a Ring of Freedom of Movement is a quite reasonable thing for...

Agreed. But that's how it's written. Now, if the Vow of Poverty said something along the lines of 'you can have 10 gp worth of possessions', that'd be a different story. But that's not what they said. Likewise, exactly as written, the Vow of Poverty ascetic has no limit on the number of 50...

Yeah. But it's trivially easy to get the list, thanks to d20srd.org's Spell Filter (which is actually run on Pen, Paper, & Pixel, but whatever): * Aid * Air Walk * Align Weapon * Antilife Shell * Antimagic Field * Atonement * Bane * Bear's Endurance * Bear's...

Assuming wealth-by-level, and reasonable amounts of down-time, the Vow of Poverty is a mechanically sub-optimal choice at basically all levels. But 'mechanically optimal' isn't the point. The point is to make a specific character concept - the ascetic - viable. That said, there are...

So... your DM is killing you via tactics. And doing it quite carefully, so that you can still survive, when the dice are against you, without doing anything particularly obvious. You've got a rather good DM. Bravo. As for SR: Good luck. There's not really an item that fits your...

Cool. I mean, it'd be easier if you could stuff someone into a bag of holding and have that absorbed by the Polymorph, but eh, you have a character you need to dump anyway....

A couple of questions.... 1) Why are you subject to a 7th level spell when you're at 8th level? The caster is, at a minimum, 5 levels above you - that's an 'impossible' encounter. 2) Are you specifically in a hurry to get out? You could just rest up eight hours, prepare spells again, and this...

Skip Eldritch Knight. Pick up either more Incantatrix (or not - it's a rather overpowered PrC), or Abjurant Champion. Don't really want to lose Arcane Advancement. Slightly more on-topic: No, not really. At least, not that ran so nicely.

Ah... kinda defeats the purpose of a game of dice if it's hopeless. If you're the DM, just fiat it in. If you're not the DM, why bother, unless you're going up against a high-rank deity or something? Under normal circumstances, it's 5%. If you have a DM that's rolling an absurd number of...