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I disagree. Eldritch Knight has a lot going for it vis a vis Duskblade (it doesn't have much vis a vis Abjurant Champion of Phantom Dragoon, but that's a different discussion). While I haven't played a duskblade, I did play an eldritch Knight from levels 1-18 (final level: Fighter 1/Wizard...

I used to play elves.... elves were cool and could multiclass, and did I mention that they were cool. Then 3.5 came out and one of the first things I noticed was that there are sound mechanical reasons to play a human. So, I actually had to think about what kind of a character I wanted to play...

The RAW are at least clear on this much: 1. A duskblade wielding a weapon in one hand and a BUCKLER in the other can cast spells since the buckler hand is still free to wield weapons, hold items, and do other things. 2. A duskblade with a two handed weapon needs two hands to wield the weapon...

First, in defense of the RPGA, all of the campaigns do not use "expansion slots." The most popular campaign, Living Greyhawk, simply has a list of non-core material allowed at creation (some new base classes, most new domains), allowed after level 3 (most of the complete stuff), and that you may...

Given what Sabine is, I suspect that hell hath at least one fury exactly like a whatever-she-is scorned.

The million dollar question is "what do you mean by an enchanter?" Do you mean a character whose schtick is enchantment spells? Or do you want a character who only uses enchantment spells? (I'm assuming in combat here because I don't think an enchanter's viability is in question anywhere else)...

More hit points vs. Expertise isn't really the tradeoff you're looking at. It's more hit points and a higher to-hit bonus versus more AC. The AC and hit point conversion can be calculated as follows on a purely average damage basis (the easiest way, but not necessarily the most helpful)...

How big a deal less than a 15 wisdom is will depend upon how long the campaign runs. My usual answer is: 15 wisdom guarantees you a bonus 3rd level spell at level 5 and, with a +2 periapt, gives you a bonus 4th level spell at level 7. That's a big deal. But, when you start at 7th level, it may...

Something to consider: you could eschew the war domain and take Destruction and Strength instead. As others alluded to, the bane of self-buffing clerics is prep time. My comment on several occasions has been, "gee, you really kick butt now that combat's over. Too bad you didn't manage to do...

All fine and dandy until you start prying under the hood of your deontic and consequentialist systems. Can wrong actions ever be justified? And, if not, how do you deal with conflicting duties? (Well, maybe that could be the primary distinction between Lawful Neutral and Lawful Good--lawful...

As for personality, if you're going for having it avoid death, why not go whole hog--have the sword actually be a person who chose to pass their soul into the weapon in order to avoid dying (and being hunted down by the Maruts).

That depends. Does one big installment delay the delivery of that installment? Or does it speed up the delivery of the second installment?

Should I take it you dislike the Quicken Spell feat then? Because there are very very few spells in the game worth quickening at the moment. Ray of Enfeeblement is one of the few 1st level spells that, when quickened is worth the 5th level slot for a character who can actually cast it. (The...

Note that it can also be removed by chugging a potion of lesser restoration. (You could cast lesser restoration too but the 3 round casting time pretty much removes that from contention).

I too thought that the deity's favor class feature from PHB II looked very promising for a favored soul. The greater spells per day and spontaneous casting aren't really suited for a melee character (like Weapon Focus and Specialization are) but the deity's favor feature IS quite promising for a...

Sure, Dragonstar has high tech melee options (though ranged options are more noticably effective as is probably fitting since the setting is about drow and half-dragons with blaster rifles and space ships not about jedi with lightsabres). I mentioned a half-dozen of them in my post. Apparently...

Well, if he doesn't want to do anything that will help his character survive, just kill him until he gets the picture.

I'm not convinced of that. The text of the spell says immobilized, not helpless. In most other contexts, I would take that to mean unable to move on the battlemap.

Something to think about here (in support of what you just wrote), and this is my opinion: Interesting characters are not characters with a bizarre and improbable or dramatic backstory. Yeah, your ranger's family was killed by orcs and you hunted them in the mountians and then were lost in a...

Curiously, Lawful Good is probably the most common alignment for my characters but fewer than half of them (and none of the longest running ones) have been paladins. Next on my list is probably Lawful Neutral.