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I've always thought that this was the designers explaining how they came to the grapple modifier more than anything else. Everyone at the table is obligated to make jokes that the spell gets a bonus versus uniformed school girls. No. Augment Summoning calls out any summoning spell you cast...

I've had a player roleplay bonding with their animal. It was a dog that she rescued from some goblins. The goblins were torturing it. She nursed the dog back to health; took it to a priestess of Ehlonna for blessing and started training it. As a reward to the roleplaying, I gave the dog...

Igwilly, I think that the murder hobo term comes from the fact that some players are more focused on the mechanics and combat than anything else. Their PCs go from dungeon to dungeon killing and looting only to do it again and again. The kind of PCs that have more GP value in their clothing...

As my warmage said in game, "I can cast Earthquake; we know where he lives; why are we debating this!?" For summoning, the thing is to look at what each monster can do. Can it grapple, trip, swallow? Plus, every round that the BBEG spends killing the summoned critter is damage your cleric...

My wife recently played a high level summoner. Dropping a pair of fiendish t-rexes can certainly have a huge impact on the battle. Add in things like Rapid Spell or Time Stop and it gets even crazier. I have found the best way to control a wizard is not through monsters or trying to beat them...

I don't know if I have a favorite wizard build. What I really like is necromancy but core D&D doesn't do that too well, especially for wizards. Probably too many hours playing Diablo 2 growing up. ;) But I'd like to throw my 2 coppers in anyway. LN Human Wizard (Generalist), follower of Wee...

If you want more official sources, you could look at Drow of the Underdark, a 3.5 book, or Underdark, a Forgotten Realms setting book. I imagine the drow would use their darkvision. Whatever light they would have would be dim and reserved for whatever slaves they take that don't have...

Dark Hunter will also give you a death attack! :)

There are a handful of prestige classes that give darkvision or extend your existing darkvision. Dark Hunter and Pale Master leap to mind but I don't know if those work with what you want.

Go with an magical adamantine longsword. The DMG/SRD says that about 30% of magic weapons give off light as a torch. Ask your DM if you can flavor the light (Red, blue, green, etc). You can now have a glowing sword that can cut through anything. To go with the warrior magician feel of a...

Isn't that just Cleric 20? ;)

Where are you currently? if you're in a town/city, then use this to your advantage. You're a cleric. Go to your temple and inform your superiors. Go to any friendly temples and tell them what you know and suspect. If there aren't any temples openly friendly to your religion then visit at...

Does the Sanctify Martial Strike feat and the Bane weapon enhancement stack? Sanctify Martial Strike feat grants an extra 1d4 damage against evil outsiders and evil undead. If I have that feat and an evil outsider bane weapon, would I deal (regular damage) + 1d4 + 2d6?

FWIW, in the last game I played in, the DM wanted to do a quick check to see if we were close to WBL. If I did not include my spellbook's value my wizard was under wealthed. If I did I was over wealthed. Yes, the blessed book is a great boon to your wizard but it also lets you BE a wizard...

A player in my campaign wants to take leadership and wants to designate their special mount as their cohort. The player is a paladin/fist of raziel. Essentially, he's paying a feat tax to keep his mount relevant. If the mount is made a cohort, the DMG suggests that they be given a +2 LA. And...

The big thing about the Blessed Book is that you can scribe spells into for "free". Wizards are massive gold sinks. ;)

First, tactics are a two way street. If you scry and die the BBEG's lieutenant then you can expect him to do the same to your loved ones. Second, as the DM you can do all sorts of fun stuff to prevent scry and die. Maybe the villain's lair is in a pocket dimension located in a single grain of...

I'll add in that I like encounters to vary in difficulty. Being up against a tough monster can be fun. Especially if there are things you can work with besides your character sheet. Can I use the terrain to my advantage? What if I try to lure the monster here? Those are some of my favorite...

Not quite what you're asking for but I've seen a few arguments that Middle Earth and E6 for 3.5 make a good match.

I've always allowed players to do this and just called for the improvised weapon penalty. I never thought about simple vs. martial part of it! How about you move the damage die down one and call it a nonlethal club or something like that.