Quote Originally Posted by Aegis013 View Post
Considering the recruitment explicitly allows some final options to be left without selection and determined if accepted, I would hope that once submissions get selected we would discuss and review and try to bring our characters into some approximately similar optimization band to prevent any toes from getting figuratively stepped on. Thus, I'm not going to worry about lagging behind or getting ahead until selection.

Though with Incantatrix being explicitly allowed, I think we've got quite a bit of room to realize our concepts.
This is my thought as well. And one great thing about 3.5: There is a lot of flexibility in terms of power level.