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It is also a source of spells of the law and chaos descriptors, as you simply can't cast spells of an opposed alignment. The cleric list is the same for every cleric, so if you don't cast alignment-based spells, you're getting the same alignment-free divine power as a good cleric. That's...

It's really just an extension of Darkstalker--that lets you hide against nonmagical extraordinary perception, this lets you hide against magic. Given that it's really too easy for magic to negate stealth, I think it's appropriate--particularly since the ability is basically Spot vs. Hide as...

This actually isn't really all that overpowered; better than the base assassin, yes, but that's the point. Could you give us an idea of where you're having problems with it so we can suggest particular fixes?

I'm not seeing how stealing power from an evil god is an evil act; it may be granted by an evil god, but divine power is divine power is divine power. Obviously a paladin wouldn't actually be fighting evil with evil; I was talking about the source of the power, not the methods and motivations.

You're assuming vengeance as a motivation. Equally as common is the old "fight fire with fire" trope where a hero uses evil methods/powers/etc. to fight evil. Just as a Malconvoker can summon fiends to kill fiends, a good ur-priest could vow to only steal power from evil gods and use it to...

Nitpick: They started out with the worst saves, but when you hit level 7 or so they started to pull ahead, ending up with the best saves array of all the classes. Sort of a Linear Wizards, Quadratic Warriors scenario. ;)

Sudden Quicken is a big investment, and you can't take it more than once. You probably want metamagic rods, which are 3/day but fairly expensive for lower levels. The main benefit to DMM, Persist or not, is that it comes online much, much earlier and cheaper than other metamagic reducers, even...

The OP already mentioned that the psion has Psicrystal Containment (he has "that other focus feat"), and he likely has Psionic Meditation as well to refresh as a move action. There's a Practiced Manifester feat in CPsi, so that works out. It's apparent that the PCs are playing by the rules...

Not the intent of IL, probably, but then, this is WotC we're talking about. It is, however, the intent of bloodlines: They affect every class, not just one class. Every class contributes its class levels to IL, and it's a level-dependent value, so every class adds ½(class+bloodline) to IL...

Not in the slightest. You say he was a high-ranking member of an evil organization. That means that the party should have faced challenges getting in (ethereal solids in the walls, guardians with see invisibility/true seeing, etc.), they should have faced challenges finding the guy...

As mentioned, any given bloodline only has three levels. You could, however, take multiple bloodlines to get fey bloodline 3/something bloodline 3/something else bloodline 3/yet another bloodline 1/fighter 10. It's not a matter of DM ruling at all; it's right there in the bloodline rules...

Bloodlines. Every bloodline level is added in when calculating any "level dependent benefits," or abilities that specifically reference class level/character level/caster level/etc. Binding prestige classes say "add your level in X to your EBL" and thus 3 bloodline levels add +3 to each PrC.

And when was the last time you saw anyone take WF, Dodge, or Toughness as anything other than a prerequisite feat? IA (Constitution) is Improved Toughness (an average feat) plus 1/2 Great Fortitude (half of a weak feat) plus 1/3 Skill Focus (Concentration) (one-third of a weak feat), making it...

Well, it looks like it's balanced with comparable feats to me. Looking at the list of feats to which it is superior: Weapon Focus. Dodge. Toughness. Spell Focus. Skill Focus. All of the feats it overshadows are among the weakest feats in the game. It's definitely not on par with any of...

The 25,000gp limit is only for nonmagical items: So you could easily and legally fulfill it by granting the wisher a Third Eye: Conceal. Whether you should is another issue.

You can use any 3.0 material that hasn't been updated to 3.5, so while it's perfectly fine to use Savage Species stuff in 3.5 (updating DR and such), 3.0 Spell Focus and Energy Substitution have been superseded by their 3.5 counterparts and thus can't be taken.

I like the sanctified mind PrC for that (Lords of Madness). The 1st level ability is Partition Mind: for [class level + Cha mod] rounds per day, instead of being affected by a mind-affecting affect, you can choose to be slowed instead, which will give you the standard action you need for IHS...

The basic maneuver rules state that you must be able to move freely to initiate a maneuver, and IHS doesn't override that.

The zelekhut (the mechanical winged centaur-looking one) is an inevitable from Mechanus in core; you might want to try that one.

This is unfortunately true, but there are still a bunch of things psionics does better than magic and a bunch of things psionics just can't do (and vice versa for magic). Just taking thematically-appropriate spells and saying "Ta-da! Psionics!" isn't going to preserve that and will just make...