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I'd like to see GameMastery Flip-Mat: City Streets reprinted so that I can buy it for less than $4,100.

This player is mocking you because you are being overly pedantic.

No, he's mocking him because he's being selfish and rude. This is a roleplaying game. If you don't want to roleplay, go play with yourself. On a computer.

Anyone who openly mocks the GM in such a disrespectful fashion should be told to leave. I know that's probably not what you want to hear and sounds quite harsh but at the end of the day he's putting his own agenda and bias before everyone else's enjoyment and is disrespecting the one person who is giving him the opportunity to play in a game at all. Talk about biting the hand that feeds. This type of person will not change. They are far too self-involved to care about anyone else at the table.

Again, it might sound harsh but I've experienced these types of players dozens of times and nothing ever convinces them to change. In fact, even bringing it up causes resentment because they can't fathom how anyone could disagree with them or their playstyle.

If you were going to build a party of 5 PC's, what would the best builds for each PC be that makes a well rounded party that compliments each other's abilities?

By builds I mean the ones in the optimisation guides like the archer paladin or cagm barbarian, etc. What combinations work really well together so that no-one feels outshined and everyone gets to pull off some awesome in every session?

Feats, traits, races, classes, archetypes, skills, heck even spell choices for every character in the party are up for grabs to recommend. I guess I'm asking, "Build me an uber party!" Well, it's not really a request so much as it is that I'm curious to see what people come up with and what the parties look like when people aren't choosing individually but rather as a collective. Would be cool to see people's choices.

The concept of monotheism is a modern one. All religions, even Christianity, began with multiple deities, often dozens and in many cases even hundreds and no one god was worshiped above another.

So I say go for it. More interesting and far less one-dimensional.

Kandros speaking to the sorcerer's pet (who can talk via a magical device) while they both wait outside in the stables for being denied entrance to the castle, "Yeah, I don't understand doors either."

Oh, I forgot another one.

In baking an apple pie he actually managed to get a 17 on the skill roll despite having a -2 to the attempt. When he asked everyone what it was like, one of the players commented that it was actually quite good and that he especially liked the use of cinnamon. Kandros asked him what cinnamon was and the character pointed it out to him in the kitchen saying, "It's this cylindrical bark-like thing that is crushed into a powder like that." Kandros then proceeds to sniff at the bowl, very close and very powerfully, drawing a bunch of powdered cinnamon up his nose. After some coughing and spluttering he says, "Guh... good s+%+!"

In the pursuit of trying to create a character from a concept first, I ended up deciding to scrap the entire notion because whatever I created didn't really work within the system. So I finally just said to Hell with it and went full-on cookie-cutter, dumping the dump stats so hard I almost hurt myself.

Strangely enough I ended up creating a character that I really enjoyed roleplaying. He's... unique. The examples of play below will mostly only make sense if you read the character description in the PDF linked to here (slight note, homebrew rules humans get an extra +2 and 1 extra trait):

• When asked by a fellow party member whether or not he has a knife, he pulls out his greatsword. He then spends the next half an hour trying to put it back in its sheathe and ends up spinning around in circles in order to get the tip closer to the scabbard's opening on his back. When guards in the castle come to ask him if he's going to attend the formal dinner that the rest of the party is engaged in with the lord of the castle, he screams at them, "Can't you see I'm busy!"
  
• When he notices a beautiful elven woman in a tavern noticing him, he goes up to her, puts his leg up on the table, leans on it, pushes his crotch forward and says, "How would you like to have my rock inside your world?"
  
• The boat the party were on hits a reef and starts leaking. He goes downstairs to "help" and starts pushing at the gushing water (just the water mind you, not the actual holes where the water is gushing from) with his hands, desperately proclaiming that it's not working. When a party member puts a board up against the flow and tells him to push against it, he almost makes the hole bigger by pushing so hard.
  
• When he asked a fellow party member if there were dogs in a town the reply he got was that there were no dogs. He then asks what a Nodog is and gets told that they're dogs that aren't there. He then starts searching for invisible dogs.
  
• In an interaction with a hot elven noble woman, he is told by the DM that she seems familiar. As a player I suspect she's casting a charm spell. He doesn't resist (I think I failed the save anyway but would've denied myself the save regardless) and is now besotten by her and will die on her command. Currently he is championing her in a quest she has sent him on.
  
• When told that the heaviest thing in the room that he can bench press in order to do his daily exercise routine is the bartender, he starts benching him.
  
• The party meets with a scatter-brained old wizard who has locked himself in a dungeon and offers the party to sit down with him by saying, "Take a chair." There is only one chair and he's sitting on it. He tries to take the chair with the wizard in it.
  
• The paladin in the party is influenced by some sort of magic to make a social faux pas against a young woman and thinks he has crossed a line. He then tries to make amends by saying that he will submit himself to the law. When some lawful authorities come to the tavern for an entirely unrelated matter, he puts both wrists forward in submission. Kandros then looks at the paladin, looks at the guards, looks back at the paladin, looks back at the guards, and then offers his own wrists thinking that it is some type of social ritual he is expected to perform.
  
• Hits on the party (male) elven wizard. At least until he meets the noble elven lady at which point he tells the party wizard, in a sad tone as if saying something that the wizard won't like, that he is no longer interested in him.
  

I'm not sure if the other players enjoyed his antics but I sure did.