My friend plays 4e and he enjoys the swordmage class. He was wondering if it's in 3.5 so he can use it in a campaign I'm making. Is it?
What is the best class or classes in 3.5e to build a character that uses both a sword and either arcane magic or psionics which can be fluffed as arcane magic and focuses on fighting powerful individual creatures?    I have a foundness for those that can sling spell along with blade, like Dak'kon from Planescape: Torment.  So, given that, how do I make the best Gishy character I can?  Specifically, the group is looking for a character focused on delivering high damage or other debilitating effects to an individual target.  There is no need to balance sword and magic, though I would prefer to have the melee abilities remain at least relevant through at least mid-levels.  This question:  is related.  But I am specifically looking to optimize for high targeted damage output and have no need to balance between sword and spell if focusing on one is more effective.  I have considered the duskblade and that may be the best answer, but as I have limited experience with 3.5 I want to find out if I should use a pure duskblade, a duskblade which steps into other classes, or some other class I have not considered.  In this particular case, the characters will start at level 7, and equipment rules are liberal as long as the characters can afford it.  I'm not sure how long this will last so I am focused on the next few levels instead of trying to plan all the way out to 20.  It will be a party of 5.  Not all of the rest of the characters have been fully fleshed out, but we will have a cleric and a wizard.  The other two are more up in the air but they one is looking at various rogue classes and the other is looking at some sort of melee class, with this gishy rounding out the team.  The initial encounter is up in the air, but there is a definite fondness for gryphons.  We do know that we will be working up to dragon in relatively short order, which is a factor in wanting to focus on large damage output to individual creatures as opposed to being able to deal with numerous weaker creatures.  The setting is "modified Forgotten Realms".    I personally own absolutely no 3.5 books, but we have access to a fair bit and just about anything from WoTC is permitted.  I am new to 3.5, but I have a fair bit of roleplaying experience including AD&amp;D.    Thematically, I envision the character as a generally honorable, but working as a monster hunter and mercenary.  I definitely favor swords though specifically which sword is flexible.  Dak'kon from Planescape would be an excellent example of what I would like to build, as would The Witcher.  Based on Kryan's excellent answer, it seems to be leading up to using duskblade and a specialist wizard to lead into Abjurant Champion.
On some Microsoft Access queries, I get the following message:  Operation must use an updatable query. (Error 3073).  I work around it by using temporary tables, but I'm wondering if there's a better way.  All the tables involved have a primary key. Here's the code:  UPDATE CLOG SET CLOG.NEXTDUE = (     SELECT H1.paidthru      FROM CTRHIST as H1     WHERE H1.ACCT = clog.ACCT AND     H1.SEQNO = (         SELECT MAX(SEQNO)          FROM CTRHIST          WHERE CTRHIST.ACCT = Clog.ACCT AND          CTRHIST.AMTPAID &gt; 0 AND         CTRHIST.DATEPAID &lt; CLOG.UPDATED_ON     ) ) WHERE CLOG.NEXTDUE IS NULL; When to use "respectively"? I have been wondering what it means when people use "respectively" in, before, and after sentences. For example:     We are looking for a babysitter to pick up and supervise our kids ages   6 and 3, respectively, on Monday and Friday.   I don't know if this person used it correctly, but if they did what does it mean? 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The context is soccer (association football) and the sentence in question is:       The forward received the ball from the midfielder's pass.     I have already ask about this  and received alot of good answers, and I tried to leave it at that.  But then the World Cup 2014 is upon us, and I am starting to have doubts about this football usage of "from", to the point that I have semi-nightmares about it.  The use of "from" in the football example continues to bother me.  I seem to disagree (subconsciously) about how a ball (physical object) could be "from" a pass (action) unless that action creates that object.       Some people were hit by debris from the explosion.   The use of "from" in "debris from the explosion" makes excellent sense to me, because the explosion does create the debris.  But in soccer/football, the ball cannot possibly be "created" by a pass.    Is there any non-football usage of "from" similar to my football example sentence? 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In the following, $D$ is the graph with one dot and no arrows, $1$ is the terminal object in this category (graph with one dot and one arrow, the loop).  So far I have:   The points of $\mathbf{1}\to A^A$ correspond to the maps $A\to A$ (via two standard isomorphisms), and since $\mathbf{1}$ is the loop, and there is one map of graphs $A \to A$, there is one loop in $A^A$. The dots $D\to A^A$ correspond to the maps $A \times D \to A$, of which there are four, hence four dots in $A^A$. The arrows $A \to A^A$ correspond to the maps $A \times A \to A$, of which there are four, hence four arrows in $A^A$.   But I'm stuck on how to put these together to constitute $A^A$ and its evaluation map.