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[StreamOfTheSky]

Loremaster or Cloistered Cleric both get a similar ability to Bardic Knowledge.

Not in your book list and doesn't fit his race, but Races of Stone has the feats Trivial Knowledge for gnomes and Ancestral Knowledge (ability to make untrained knowledge checks is about the same as having some general knowledge class feature, effectively) for dwarves.

I don't see why any of those things couldn't be adapted to fit the PC if the DM was willing.

 

[insanogeddon]

Check magic of incarnum purely for the rikalian rogue substitution levels.... they fit really well as kender substitution levels (get bardic lore w.o the magic, singing and dancing).

Also don't forget srd: halfling paragon. Lets face it kenders are like halflings on speed.

SRD - Racial Paragon

Also scout from complete adventurer fits better in many ways than rogue.. you also get inate hide in plain sight relatively early without any mystical classes like shadow dancer.

 

[Herzog]

Factotum

Thanx, but not going to happen.
Not with this DM.
It's in a book he hasn't even heard of, and the main reason to limit the allowed books is to be able to keep everything balanced. Adding more books makes this task more difficult, and I respect that.

Loremaster

Requires Spellcasting to get into this PrC. We're trying to avoid that.

Cloistered Cleric
halfling paragon

These may SEEM to come from an allowed book (since it's in the SRD) but it actually isn't. We're using PHB,DMG,MM and the four complete books only. Nevertheless, I'll look them over.

Trivial Knowledge for gnomes and Ancestral Knowledge for dwarves

Since I didn't get to have the racial substitution levels for Dwarves from Races of Stone for Flint, I doubt he'll let Tas have these.

scout

I don't really see how these 'fit' better. And hide in plain sight becomes available at lvl 14. Not my idea of 'relatively early'. But then, our campaigns rarely have gone beyond lvl 12...

rikalian rogue substitution

Although this is from a not-allowed book, this seems like the most promising option of the lot. If only this single option is requested it might be allowed.
If the Handler PrC is denied, we might go for this one.

Thanx everyone!

 

[Dandu]

Thanx, but not going to happen.
Not with this DM.
It's in a book he hasn't even heard of, and the main reason to limit the allowed books is to be able to keep everything balanced. Adding more books makes this task more difficult, and I respect that.

I see. Any houserules we should know about, btw?

 

[Herzog]

I see. Any houserules we should know about, btw?

I'm not sure if this was meant as a sarcastic remark. In case it was: Note that I mentioned the list of allowed books in the first post.

However, I'm going to go with honest question, so:
The following restrictions may be important:
-Tends to be low on magic items and equipment. Not really a houserule, but we are far below the Wealth-by-level in his campaigns, in my experience. Have not had a chance to find out if this campaign is any better.
-Restrictive on spellcasting. This is part of the Dragonlance campaign world, and although he is known to deviate from the original storyline (he has played the same campaign with different players before, using the 1st edition AD&D rules) I expect him to stick somewhat to this background issue. If you don't know what the background is: in short, the (real) gods have been gone for quite some time and have just started returning. Arcane magic is in the hands of a powerful organization (forgot which one, I need to read up on the background again )
-Focusses on the story raher than the mechanics. This is the main reason he wants to keep the number of sourcebooks to a minimum: less rules/options to worry about, more time to spend on the 'fluff'.