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Oh, and to finally provide my own take on the OP's questions, even though my actual Pathfinder experience is limited to a single 1.5 year campaign: 1. Summoner looks like a bit of a problem, what with there being two characters for the price of one. Leadership is similar and should not normally...

What's a bit problematic to rule are metamagic cost reducers, though. So Practical Metamagic, Metamagic School Focus, Easy Metamagic, high-level Incantatrix, Circle Magic... all pose a bit of a problem for item pricing. Ask your DM, or if you're the DM, err on the side of caution and don't allow...

DM "oversight" and the DM "judging whether it's a decent idea" implies more autocracy than I'm comfortable with at the gaming table. I spend much more time DMing than playing, but I wouldn't dream of denying or granting "rights" (to dip, or whatever else) to my players. I like to work with my...

It's not as if you'll ever have three Barbarians with lame-cursed Oracle dips in your game. You'll have one at most. If the lame-cursed Oracle provides him with mechanical options he likes, and if the character's back story fits together, why should this kind of powergaming be frowned upon? I...

"Sometimes a Smokestick is just a Smokestick."

...is really the only thing left for me to say in this debate, too. I hope the OP can sift the combined wisdom of argument and counterargument in this thread and develop his/her own opinion.

Hmm. In my limited experience, countersong is already pretty useful in the situations where it applies. When my group fought some harpies, having a Will save = performance check was a lifesaver. Similarly, if you know there's going to be Suggestions from an opposing mage, countersong is...

Sounds to me as if you wanted to replace the classic "good vs. evil" struggle with a "chaos vs. order" conflict. I'd think long and hard about what the ramifications of Chaos as the great enemy entails. This doesn't only affect the use of magic. For example, individual freedom, art, (certain...

Not good advice in my opinion. Whyever should dipping be disallowed? PF has the favored class mechanic, which encourages you to stay in one class; and very few class features are actually so front-loaded as to be worth leaving your specialty class for. So the mechanical side of things actually...

This is true enough. However, it has no bearing whatsoever on a rules discussion. You wanna know how the mechanics of HiPS work at the table? Read the rules, apply them. You wanna know how HiPS works in the gaming world? Make something up, the (game) world is your canvas. Please don't mix the...

Longstrider, Lesser Restoration, Entangle, Resist Energy, Pass Without Trace, Deathwatch, Hide from Undead, Remove Fear, Sanctuary, Bless Weapon, Animal Messenger, Delay Poison, Hide from Animals. Those are some good, albeit situational ones from Core. I haven't looked through domains to pick...

QFT. Especially when the rules text in question refers to a (Su) ability in the first place...

No, Ashtagon, this is not what is stated in the ability's description. The Shadowdancer's HiPS ability reads: "Hide in Plain Sight (Su): A shadowdancer can use the Stealth skill even while being observed. As long as she is within 10 feet of an area of dim light, a shadowdancer can hide herself...

First off, Ashtagon is likely not correct on this one: dim light can exist in an area whether or not a given creature can see within it or not. A Shadowdancer's HiPS ability is (Su) - it works by bending an existing dimness from a shadowy area into an obfuscating glamer or something, and is an...

Consistent Spell, Two-Handed Spell, Mass Effect Spell - never seen these before, what do they do? Where're they from? Your basic build looks fine, should be alright, now it all comes down to spell selection and actual tactical play...

My reaction as a DM would heavily depend on the scale of changeling abuse I'm facing. If the PC mostly uses his abilities to swipe a few gp here and there, fine, I'd let him do that almost without repercussions. I bet in a fantasy world, most shops have "changeling insurance" anyway. If the PC...

I can get behind your stance on this, pemerton, now that you present it in a little more differentiated way. If I understand correctly, your point is: if you as a DM get the feeling that a certain rule is causing a problem in your game, why not just go ahead and change the rule? As a...

"Have to be good"... where do you get this from? Normally, Half-Celestials ARE good. But there can be exceptions, obviously. "The spell-like ability assumes this"... again, in what way? Just because some of the spell-like abilities have happy, fuzzy, feel-good connotations? No reason why a N...

Outsiders are living creatures, they just function differently once they're dead (not living anymore). Everything that has a Con score is a living creature. Important part bolded. This obviously implies that Outsiders are living creatures, too. The "living creature" bit in the Cure spell...

Basic reading comprehension fail on your player's part. "Any" differs from "every" or "each", and the exact difference where applied to the relevant bits of rules text should be extremely easy to parse even for a non-native English speaker.