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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wonko the Sane" data-source="post: 3866329" data-attributes="member: 16490">As a five-level prestige class, Master of Nine is not eligible for epic progression...that is reserved for 10-level prestige classes only.Your only real alternative is to continue taking levels in the initiator classes you already have...for example, the githyanki Crusader/Swordsage/Warblade/Master of Nine I made as an adversary in my last epic game is 7/7/7/5, and he just accessed 9th-level maneuvers.  He has way more maneuvers available than he can possibly ready, but with the [quite possibly broken] feat Adaptive Style, that versatility can really pay off big when your entire "spellbook" is just a full-round action away.  Once you're in two simultaneous 8th-level stances with a ridiculous repertoire of crazy stunts at your fingertips, you should be able to scare the crap out of all the CR 30+ stuff your DM is going to be throwing at you.If you had to play the character up from first level, there would be a long stretch (until around 26th level) where you'd lag behind the rest of the party, but since he springs into existence at 30th level, that shouldn't present a problem.I can post the aforementioned githyanki's character sheet if you'd like, but it's on my laptop (all the way across the room, in a bag), and I'm almost terminally lazy.WtS</blockquote>