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Well, it depends. You lose 3 BAB with Virtuoso 5 or 6 for Jarring Song and spellcasting progression, and 2 BAB with Seeker of the Song 6 for Hymn of Spelldeath. Factoring in the 1 BAB loss from Bard, you'll end with 16 or 17 BAB if the rest of your levels are Paladin levels. Jarring Song/Hymn...

Well, this is true for casters, but for melee characters, rampant multiclassing can be a good thing. You can pick up quite a few abilities while meeting prerequisites for a Prestige Class.

Have you thought about using Virtuoso or Seeker of the Song instead of progressing Bard levels? You get the fun fun Jarring Song/Distracting Song, which makes it really annoying to be a spellcaster when you're meleeing them.

Well, that's hardly a Monk build... more like a Fighter build with a Monk dip. EDIT TO ADD: This is actually illegal. As a Kensai 3, your Signature Weapon can only have an enhancement bonus of up to +3. Your weapon has the equivalent of a +6 bonus. You can't start off with a magical weapon...

Negative Level for dying Fantastic houserule IMO.

I'm not sure it's a huge deal. I've just started a PbP campaign where we get average +1 HP, total rounded up. I'm playing a d6 class with 16 Con, and I end up with 87 HP. The two tanks have around 150 HP each. Granted, they have a larger focus in Con and Improved Toughness, but the...

The relevance is that Chain Power can't be applied to any power in existence at the time it was printed if spells with Effect: Ray are not considered single-target spells. See if you can find a single target energy power in the SRD that's not a ray.

Well, rays are ranged attacks, and ranged attacks target one creature. Otherwise, please find me a use of the Chain Power metapsionic feat in the XPH/SRD :). Energy Missiles doesn't count because it already can have multiple targets. Aside: Chain Power might beat out Monkey Grip as worst feat...

Why not just leave most things the same, except change the Eldritch Blast progression to match how the BAB progresses +1d6 (so the Warlock ends with +16d6)? The biggest worry here is stuff like Eldritch Glaive (16d6 with a full attack is pretty good), but this would be a quick fix that's easy...

Perhaps the new cone effects are half-circlessquares or quarter-circlessquares instead?

Well, you have a point. I think the better idea is just to have them RP it out and not worry so much about the dice rolls *shrug*.

Haste at level 3? Yes please! :D

What? She'll be doing the same attacks over and over (OK, some melee and some ranged) but it's not like she'll be useless, especially since the others aren't exactly optimized either. There are no real bad choices for those kids, except the stuff they don't want to play (honestly, I think I'd...

I second this. As to the "you can't do this" problem, just ad-hoc the rules. If doing something cool doesn't confer any benefits to the player (i.e. sliding down the railing instead of just taking the stairs), let them have it without a roll or anything. There's no need to min-max stuff for...

That doesn't work. Not only is there a Fort Save, but...

Every? Please tell me why the Aasimar or Tiefling would make a good choice for Monks. If they don't, please let me know specifically which Planetouched races you're talking about. There's so many other factors that can go into this. Like I said before, it's tough to generalize from an...

Yes, but proficiency in the Greatspear is usually not optimal for the Str Monk who can't take advantage of Combat Reflexes. He'd probably get something like Improved Initiative or Improved Natural Attack instead. The idea is that if your party is focus firing, then the Str Monk's extra damage...

Rarely overpowered. If your entire shtick is dealing damage, then you really should be dealing over 200 per round before your build can be considered a strong damage-dealing build (overkill for most games probably, but still). Warlocks have other things, but even 28d6 damage per round isn't...

Warlocks even with Hellfire, overpowered? Surely you jest... ;) I forgot exactly how much damage it is, but even something like 14d6 damage twice a turn 3 times a day isn't that great at higher levels. It doesn't even break 200 damage per round, which is the standard for strong damage.

Again, I think you made some unfair assumptions in that the Dex Monk will be taking all the hits and the Dex Monk somehow has proficiency in the Greatspear without a commensurate boon for the Str Monk. Can you show me your numbers and calculations? I'm actually not sure how you got to some of...