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Hunter's Mercy only works with bows.

Bloodstorm Blade from Bo9S.

At the level when you can reasonably afford a luckblade, you can also generally afford to have saves high enough that you rarely fail. Being able to eliminate automatic failure 1/day is incredibly useful.

Persistent shapechange is nice. You can use a subtle form most of the time and only take a powerful form when necessary. Svirfneblin is a good base form. You get nice SR as a first line of defense.

The metamagic insanity that is the Incantatrix is really beyond compare.

Here are a few possibilities to look at. Heroism (+2 morale) Take 10 Create Magic Tattoo (+2 Enhancement to Int)

Nar Demonbinder is from Unapproachable East (FR)

An approach that I've seen work well is to allow characters to remain conscious to their negative con modifier and die at thier negative con score. Characters are still disabled at 0. For example: Con: 14 Unconscious: -3 Dead: -14 The low levels tend to go very quickly, so if you want to slow...

Good idea. Another option is to roll your dice now and then for no particular reason. This tends to make players nervous, which is good. Also, they are less likely to be able to guess what you are rolling for. Finally, if your players are metagaming like you described, call them on it. Ask them...

The answer to your question about imprisoning psionic characters is psionic restraints (XPH). The Complete Psionic also had a few masks that messed with people. Yes, Mind Thrust is quite powerful. It is limited by being Will negates, Close range, and Mind-Affecting. I, also, prefer the...

Nope, it requires spellcasting, not just caster level.

I'll second Falling Icicle in recommending you skip Point Blank Shot and Precise Shot. Ranged touch attacks make up the difference and then some. Horizon Goggles from Complete Mage are a great item. +50% range on Eldritch Blast. A Psionic Shot build takes a lot of feats, but delivers good...

Looks like an essence invocation to me.

Yes, warlock invocations have a somatic component. Three possibilites are, Sudden Still Shadow Jaunt (Shadow Hand Gloves from ToB) Ring of Freedom of Movement

No, being in the bag of holding blocks line of effect.