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Force Cage. For Greater Celerity/Time Stop cheap crap.

Ray of Stupidity. Auto drop any big dumb HD mountains.

Ditto with Invisibilty and its ilk. I love stealth builds, and any non-casters without it, and the ability to see through it, are over in higher level play.

Shapechange. You literally don't need to prepare any other spells, since many forms can give those to you anyway.

To narrow it down to one favorite, Wall of Stone. I love conjurer wizards, and I love chess, so controlling the grid is great. Summon Monster follows, naturally.

To give a general idea, I've only seen 2 bannings in the 10/11 months I've been here, and those were outrageous posters who made an insult everyother thread, after multiple warnings. The mods are fair, and give everyone a couple of chances to learn the rules. On another site, myth-weavers...

Wizards even have the edge in metagame. With a high intelligence, knowledge of whatever lets you know of the oddities. Most of the best combat forms are things that would be well known, such as aforementioned troll forms, and a related knowledge check can otherwise be made.

Fair enough. Of course, if you speak terran, you can still learn what it saw.

If it gets to that point, then the DC is as per usual for a spell of that level, pending on the casting stat. Remmeber that you need a certain number of ranks in Balance to not be flat-footed, I believe.

Well, for starters, summon Earth Elementals to scout the dungeon with Earth Glide everytime you enter a dungeon. Chain of Eyes from the Spell Compendium lets you see what it sees, if I'm not misremembering. Also, I second polymorph. This thread is a good referrence for using the spell. The EVEN...

There isn't much to abuse in Dungeonscape. Factotum is a good class, but it's only abuseable in Gestalt games, with full casters getting the Factotum standard action ability.

I think this is the funniest thread I've ever read.

I'm not going to sift through all these posts, but I just want to say, most of the problems people have with this stuff are from DMs who don't have a firm enough grasp of the mechanics. All DMs and players should be made aware of optimization, whether or not they choose to use it. That way, both...

I don't think that answer applies here. If he's already a DM, then he's specifically requesting one kind of build. If he's already got a DM, then that does him no good either.

There are spells that give you bonuses to skills. The trickery domain gives you social skills and some of the said skill supplementing spells. Clerics can use Persist Spell on buffs to make them melee monsters. Zen Archery is must have feat for Clerics seeking to do ranged combat.

Also make sure they understand that 3.5 is very unbalanced. If they run in with a 4e mentality, they're going to wonder why the Wizard is doing so well very quick. I recommend summarizing the "Why Tier 1s are Tier 1" to them.

Check out Sandstorm, Frostburn, and Stormwrack, the environment books.

Tiefling Wizard with LA buy off, Immediate Magic variant from PHB2 for Abrupt Jaunt. 8/10/18/20/8/6 for scores. Progression is Wizard5/DivineOracle2/Loremaster4/IotSV7/Archmage2. 1st Quicken Spell 1st B Scribe Scroll 3rd Knowledge Devotion (CMage) 5th Sculpt Spell (CArc) 6th Spell Focus...

Feral, as mentioned above, allows for some truly wrecking builds, as far as melee goes, at least. The insectile template, or whatever it's called, from Savage Species is nice, and anything that grants lots of templates. The evolved undead template with Necropolitan (should work) is also kind of...

With a clause specifying that only non-magical movement is affected, I think this works nicely.