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Wow, Zappo. That player's work is like a thing of beauty. The fact that he apparently had no clue as to what he was doing is even better. I've been wanting to play a conjurer for a while, so that was like a "What NOT to Do" handbook :D

WotC's Masters of the Wild splatbook has suggested allowing Strength to be the relevant stat on intimidate checks, if the check is accompanied by some show of force/violence. Ex. The barbarian demanding his enemies to surrender without any props has to suck up his Cha penalty. The barbarian...

You need to either perform the sacrifices when the rest of the party is not around, or somehow disguise the sacrifices as something else. NG dieties usually aren't big on violence, so that might not be the best thing to pretend to be. Posing as priest of a Lawful Neutral diety of Justice might...

No. The old limits were 8 HD, 16 HD, and 22 HD (as opposed to 6, 12, and 18). Planar Binding in 3E would easily suffice to get the critters that you need Greater Planar Binding to get 3.5. Jesus. Calling in a pit fiend or planetar with a 6th level spell is a lot of bang for your buck. I'm...

Many of the outsiders were buffed in the transition from 3.0 to 3.5, along with the HD nerfs on the Ally and Binding spells. The obvious reason for this is you need a Gate Spell to bring in a Solar, Pit Fiend, or Balor now, and a Greater Planar Binding/Ally to get a Cornugon, Marilith, or...

Holy crap, PC. The amount of effort you must have expended just to come up with that treasure list wounds my brain. A Necklace of Natural Attacks (initially in Sword & Fist; expanded upon in Savage Species) would be a nice item for the druid; it can be on the dragon's corpse. A Lawful or Holy...

Balance is good -- things can get messy when PCs start overshadowing each other -- but not the be-all and end-all for me. I know from personal experience that having a character that can't really participate in combat with the rest of the party isn't fun.

The Kusari Gami (Chain & Sickle) is in Oriental Adventures, among other places. I don't remember the stats for it off the top of my head, but it's a double weapon. God knows how the heck those wires are supposed to work; the attack seems to be almost mystical in nature. I'd like see a version...

We've allowed Nondetection to counter See Invis and True Sight before; it's a spell that basically grants you SR against divinations. Interestingly enough, Assassins get both Nondetection and Improved Invis on their spell list. It makes sneak attack very strong at high levels, but I think that...

Low magic: either the DM remembers to ban spellcaster PCs, or spellcaster PCs grossly overshadow everyone else, who lack the equipment needed to compete. Grim & gritty: bring multiple character sheet, don't get attached to your current PC, becuase the next roll could kill them no matter how...

Fighter. Also, paladins and rangers really don't belong in the magic-user category.

Yeah, I've seen it done before; I've even done it myself (had my rather devout bard with a 12 wisdom take a few cleric levels). It's generally a mistake to do it; every character I've ever seen take levels in a sub-par choice has suffered for it.

For an arcane caster, Spell Focus (Conjuration) would apply to the Planar Binding spells. Edit: Actually, there are several arcane conjuration spells with saves involved -- web, cloudkill, acid fog, etc. The main disadvantage to the Summon Monster spells is that the caster sits there...

Current party? 1 Chaotic Neutral (my character), 1 confirmed neutral, 2 probable neutrals, and 1 probable neutral evil. We had a 2nd neutral evil (an ex-monk), but he tried to kill the CN druid and lost. That player hasn't gotten around to making a 2nd character yet. Most of the parties I've...

Jeez, now I'm proud of the party of nut-cases that I went through the Forge with. The DM made the mistake of placing a bounty on live orcs brought back to the town, so we actually managed to take the bulk of the orcs alive and led them back to the town in chains. The group idiot trying to use...

The XP award for victory is usually significantly higher than 300 XP at those levels, so the exchange works out pretty well. "The next hit made by (character X) will automatically threaten" is a nasty one that we've used before; the single most damaging blow we've ever recorded in a campaign...

Since Disintegrate works on objects, it works on corporeal undead. Undead creatures have amazingly bad fort saves. The wizard should be able to zap a wyvern (or its rider) right there. Preceed it with a True Strike or with someone else attacking the wyvern of choice; wasting a 6th level spell...

My 2E wizard had a 5th level version of magic missile that launched a random amount of single-point missiles. The version of the spell that's on my comp was 1d4+1 missiles for every two caster levels, but I think the final version was far more random than that (3d12+3d8 missiles or something...

Godzilla seeks to destroy Japan, and all of the mechs in the Godzilla movies were designed specifically to combat Godzilla. Therefore, the ninjas invented the mechs to that they could fight the invading dinosaurs.

Dragons are sentient and aware right out of the egg. The green dragon hatchling will probably resent having to be under the protection of a puny mortal, and may well suspect the ranger of killing its rightful parents (even better if the ranger actually did). He's gonna need to make a truce...