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I think you use the prepared spell, the idea being that you're getting a big benefit out of counterspelling without having ready an action first.

One word: Deekin.

Use the subsitution levels in Races of the Dragon and the Dragonwrought Kobold feat in there and things should work fine.

What about save-or-dies, though, or similarly effective things?

Seconded... particularly since in a D&D-verse, it's a pretty obvious-to-prove fact that if you're a good person and act right, your soul will end up on one of the nicer Outer Planes eventually.

A pretty good idea, really... problem is that you end up having to scale a lot more than just attack and damage - at higher levels, save DCs, immunities (how do you scale those?), movement rates and modes (flying, burrowing, teleporting, dimensional travel), etc etc.

Eh, I wouldn't say so. One of them doesn't even know that being unconscious makes you automatically count as 'willing' for spells ;)

I would disagree. Loading one's pistol in advance does not necessarily imply that shooting someone else later in the day is premeditated; one may simply have a particularly pragmatic view of self-defense.

I'll disagree on that one... though less in the sense that the DM should have an easy way to keep track of who has how much, rather than that the players should always be able to sell X item for Y.

...except that the warlock, by way of having assorted at-will abilities and a primary attack that pretty much doesn't rely on equipment at all (aside from maybe a Dex-boost item), is actually one of the best character classes you could come up with for something like that.

Part of the idea of Age of Worms is that the party is weakening Kyuss via way of his followers, etc, throughout the entire campaign, IIRC. That should make it at least vaguely more plausible. (I think he's more of a demigod than a 'real' deity in the first place, anyway...)

Gnome twistcloak, I think it is. The main advantage is that (I think) you can apply its bonus to your touch AC, including enhancement bonuses.

I'd say to treat it, per instance, as having the spell level of whichever spell's being used. ;)

I personally don't find trying to beat a monster with DR 15/magic and silver and blink at will with only a +1 longsword and the Spring Attack feat chain all that fun ;)

How much houseruling has been needed to keep things working properly, though?

The eye is a spell effect, not a creature or character, and thus it doesn't need to make a save. The eye transmits you an image of what it sees, which doesn't subject you yourself to the gaze attack. So I'd say you're right in this case.

Whups! Oho. Yep! So poking at my setup... Base (10) + mountain plate (10) + tower shield (4) + Heavy Armor Optimization (1) + Greater Heavy Armor Optimization (1) + Combat Expertise (5) + Cobalt Expertise (1) + Shield Specialization (1) + Titan Fighting (4 vs medium or large) + fighting...

What sorts of builds have you guys come up with for achieving (ridiculously?) high ACs without magic or magic items? Here's one of mine: Mountain plate (10) + two broadblade short swords (2+2) + Exotic Weapon Proficiency (broadblade short sword) + Two-Weapon Fighting + Two-Weapon Defense (1) +...

Perhaps you could call him an elf, but use the racial traits of the shifter race from the Eberron Campaign Setting?

There's a warbeast (I think that's the name?) template in... either MM2 or Savage Species, I can't remember which, which can be applied to vermin to make them useable as mounts.