Min/Max Boards

Rules Compendium (137) sez that spellcasting creatures do require material components and sometimes select Eschew Materials. I think that this is part of the distinction between having casting and just having a few SLAs.

Tomb of Horrors, maybe? With a Sphere of Annihilation blocking a doorway or something like that?

Being restricted to just a Move action prevents charging:

Restricted Activity
If you're unable to take a full round's worth of actions on your turn, such as during a surprise round, you can charge as a standard action. In this case, you can move up to your speed rather than up to double your speed. All other rules for charging still apply.

Emphasis added.

Helm of Battle (MIC 111): +2 untyped, 3/day
Living Chain (MIC 53): probably should not stack with Sweeping
Confound the Big Folk (RotW 153): tactical feat usable by Small or smaller characters to trip Large or larger ones using Dex and no size bonuses

Depending on the application, you might like Curling Wave Strike, a feat from Stormwrack (p 92) that replaces the follow up attack from Improved Trip with a new trip attack against a different opponent.

Clutches of two to five, once per year, and we're talking about a being that lives thousands of years, and has absolutely NO natural predators? Only adventurers that come to kill them for their gold?

How did they not conquer the world already?

Clearly it must be the case that the dragons have, in fact, already conquered the world. The PCs are unwitting participants in an enormous nature preserve cum theme park, while everyone else they may happen to think they meet are shape shifted dragons, halfbreeds, or illusions projected by the managers. For a small fee, dragon-citizens can immerse themselves in the park to see how people used to live.


Slightly more seriously, for the OP: if you want to cheese it out, you might try to argue that eggs that have been formed but not laid are too independent to be simply subsumed by polymorphing, and logically must transform into eggs appropriate to the new form. A sea turtle may lay dozens to hundreds of eggs in a single sitting.

Hmm... Can a template, by RAW, be applied more than once to the same base creature?
In other words: can an Evolved Undead become even more evolved?

I searched for a while (not long, i confess) but couldn't find a rule denying or allowing it...

Generally no, but this template calls itself out as an exception.

I think that the designers chose poorly when they decided to list the synergy abilities as "+1" but only to a weapon with the prerequisite property rather than as +2 with sensible upgrade clause. In the case at hand, "as" should be read "in the manner of", emphasizing that an Acidic Burst weapon continues to deal the 1d6 [Acid] from being Corrosive rather than having the base enchantment be entirely replaced by the synergy upgrade (which would suck).

I agree that that is an important distinction, thank you for clarifying.

Did you see this one? I have found it pretty useful. I think that it is up to date for 3.5, but I had no hand in building it and could be wrong.

edit: URL fixed, sorry.

Swift Ready: second level spell in The Forge of War that lets you enact a Sailor Moon transformation sequence summon your combat equipment from nearby. A wand of this fills much the same niche as a Ring of Arming or the Called armor enchantment, but is much less horribly overpriced.