Build Me a Ninja Turtle!

[Demoyn]

I was thinking more along the lines of making an un-gimped team.

Leonardo - paladin 14/monk 2 twf hp tank
Donatello - rogue 13/monk 3 acrobat
Raphael - ranger 14/rogue 1/monk 1
Michaelangelo - monk 16 (I'd probably just go fists since there aren't nunchaku)
Splinter - halfling wizard with healing dragonmarks
Casey Jones - human crit rage II barbarian

I fail to see how this would be a gimped team without April as a bard. There's plenty of melee DPS (everyone except Casey is a twf). There's plenty of healing (Splinter is the primary healer, but Mikey would use healing fists and Leo has lay on hands for emergencies, plus Raph and Don would both have UMD), and there's an arcane caster for buffs and control.

Are you seriously insenuating that using wop daggers instead of wop rapiers, using bastard swords instead of khopeshes, and using a greatclub instead of a greataxe makes a whole party gimped? Outside of those three weapon choices, the character builds are perfectly optimal (though I'm tempted to give Splinter a level of ranger since his primary weapon was the bow). If you can't have a good party without the perfectly optimal build, then you're gimped as a player.