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I'd be inclined to allow an immediate action but not a swift action. @Mustrum: Note that although speaking is a free action, you can also use it on others turns, so it's "more free" than a swift action is; closer, in fact, to an immediate action.

One trick that helps balance this sort of system is adjusting the CL and save DC's of the spells. That is, when you combine low level slots to cast a high level spell, it's still a weaker spell than one cast using it's "natural" slot.

No offense, but that's kind of a meaningless question. Could you maybe make it clearer exactly what you're getting at?

Why not just apply a flat penalty to all rolls? (Possibly to AC and spell/other ability DCs as well.) That's a bit simpler than mucking with penalties to ability scores. Each bracket gives you an additional -1, and it should penalize most classes about the same amount.

I'd look at it the other way around: Enchant Arrow ability is one of the better things about the class, whereas Imbue Arrow is fairly useless. As mentioned above, it lets you stack abilities on your bow while still getting a decent bonus to attack/damage.

Absolutely not; there are tons of mind-affecting spells which aren't forms of mental control. (And even more psionic powers.)

There's an item in Races of Stone that could help: the gnomish quickrazor. It's held on your wrist, and sheathes itself after each attack you make with it, so your left with your hand free again.

Knowledge(Local) should come up constantly if you actually adventure within an urban environment.

I don't think people say that the class as a whole sucks, just levels 4 through 20. ^_^ As you point out, the level 3 ability is quite nice, and 3 levels of swashbuckler is a good dip for many lightly armored fighting builds.

The wu-jen might be a decent fit, but they have 5 elements which differ slightly from the standard western 4. How about the elemental adept? It's in complete divine, which might be why you missed it, but I believe it works fine for arcane casters.

That feat in Races of the Wild which gives you a +5 on all ranged attacks if you miss with one is pretty good in conjunction with Improved Manyshot, too.

Doesn't the feat explicitly allow you to attack the same target? I know that, at a minimum, it doesn't disallow it.

Of course they can. A wall of stone or iron is an example of this. There's even this special rule for Conjuration (Creation) spells: That the various orb spells create a ball of energy that "lasts indefinitely and does not depend on magic for its existence" is another amusing example of this.

Man, that build has some pretty crazy MAD, though. I suppose that if you mostly use buff/utility spells, you just need enough charisma to cast the spells in the first place. And things like mage armor or shield will help you be less reliant on Dex and Wis for AC. It's the sort of combination...

The standard rules are that bonus dice are never multiplied, while static bonuses are. So even without looking at the ToB rules you wouldn't multiply damage from (for example) mountain hammer. But it sounds like this: would cancel the normal rules for strikes which add a flat bonus to damage...

A PDF, especially because it can open in your browser, is probably more likely to be read. If you use Open Office you can export to a PDF directly, otherwise there are plenty of web tools for converting .doc files to PDF. Even posting a PDF, you should summarize some of what you consider the...

It doesn't seem that it would work with a Halbred. A Halbred deals "Piercing or slashing" damage. And the rules for damage types note that: The only weapon which is always two types, (at least from the SRD), is the morning star. The gnome hooked hammer looks like it is at a glance, but...

Every race which grants spell resistance and is statted up as if for a PC increases SR with HD. There's no explicit rule for it, but the pattern is very clear.

If you want to grant reach with a feat, specify that you don't threaten those squares when it isn't your turn. (And thus can't make AoO into them.) This should possibly require both Jotunbrud and Monkey Grip as prereqs; then it isn't granting as much.

Golems are only immune to spells which allow spell resistance, and dispel magic does not. However, although they might appear to magic items, since the Craft Construct feat refers to them as such, they are quite definitely creatures. If constructs were vulnerable to Dispel Magic, it would list...