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I agree, but the people attempting to "prove" that martial adepts were overpowered assumed that the fighter would have no more than 4 relevant feats by 10th level. thus proving only that giving a Warrior d10 hit points and access to weapon specialization doesn't bring them up to par. When...

1005 gp 1305 gp if you want it masterwork. It's treated as good for penetrating damage reduction.

What race was he with +8 or more to dex/wis? Without racial mods He would have, at low levels, the same movement rating and a better AC if he put the 17 in dex the 18 in strength and played a barbarian in a breastplate.

Then everyone else in the party had an unaccountably crappy AC, or he had twice the value in magic items as the rest of the party.

Yes.

Cragtop Archer. If you want to shoot foes a half mile away there is no better class.

You are going to be the parties' healer like it or not. The only questions are how good at it will you be at it and how much will it interfere with your other tasks. On these points Spontaneous Healer helps.

You can only be a member of one Druidic order, no ashbound and Warden initiate in the same character. It's also bad form to create a member of an organization (the Ashbound) who veiws Arcane magic as a Vile and unnatural act when three of your party members are arcane spellcasters. Given your...

The first level substitution has a fairly high cost for a large benefit, Given that you are planning on taking levels in Moonspeaker (which doesn't advance either ability) I'd definitely take it, an underleveled beast spirit is a bigger help than an underleveled animal companion. Also with the...

Experience or opinion? Actual play reports I've seen suggest that the Warblade is significantly less powerful than the Crusader and slightly less powerful than the Swordsage. And none of them match the crazy brokenness of the Archivist.

Tides of Dread just doesn't work without some means of long distance travel faster than hiking. The adventure has a timetable, and it can't be met slogging through dinosaur infested swamps the whole way. Also so many of the foes in the later adventures of the savage tides path fly and/or...

Not all foes are Wizards. Wizards need to know you are coming to know to scry on you. Not all foes are Wizards. There are countermeasures to scrying. Not all foes are Wizards.

This would be more pertinent if all characters were equally affected by the loss of magic items. A cleric has no magic weapon, there's a magic weapon spell. No magic armor, magic vestment spell. No belt of giants strength, Bulls Strength. No cloak of resistance, Resistance. Depending on these...

Yes and we were specifically discussing the Dai-so-jo aka the two section staff, the Sam-Jit-Gwun or three section staff is it's own thing. (At least according to the link in the first post) I'm sorry for the misscommunication.

The Dai-so-jo is well within the range of variation for european heavy flails. On the other point I think you may have fallen for the meme that oriental weapons are automatically more graceful and elegant.

Except for the way that it vanishes, providing no benefit whenever you enter wildshape...

The Dai-Si-Jo is just a heavy flail, that said a flail master prestige class could be very cool.

The Japanese are not Pygmies, the height difference is inconsequential. That doesn't change the fact that katana are the same length and weight as one handed swords weilded by Europeans, Arabs, Turks, Indians, Mongols (not taller than Japanese), Chinese (also not taller than Japanese), Koreans...

I think you are confusing unsuitability for formation fighting with utter worthlessness here.

By that logic the quarterstaff should be super-duper exotic. Bah, katana are one handed not hand and a half swords. (compare the lengths and weights of katana and one handed/ hand and a half weapons from other regions museum catalogs if you don't believe me.) The Japanese just used them two...