Alrighty, so! The game looks pretty interesting, though for edition, might I suggest Pathfinder? It's interchangable with 3.5 (says so on the back of the books at least), and there's a 3rd party class that Sil might be able to make use of: Dragonrider. It gives them a slightly weaker dragon ally that can be used as a mount. Otherwise, keeping an "NPC, not for use in combat" young dragon as an ally until Sil's character gets the 'Dragon Ally' feat might be the best option in 3.5.
As for me, I always have strange, heroic-monster characters. My favorite races are the kobold, catfolk, and flind, so there's that. XD
I'm assuming we're starting at level 1? All I guess I need then is what our stat generation's going to look like, and if there's gonna be some extra house-rules. :3