1. IMHO: PfE suppress all effect of DP.
2. Torin was memorized to "self-sustaining mode" and lot of his spell was wasted beacuse the IC meetings. If you calculate the CR of a situtation then you must count this weaknesses from the PCs. This makes things harder.
(I played with a high level (14?) BoED monk and with his wife (leadership -> BoED druid) in a two days long (IRL) game. Our DM didn't let the players to speak the roles in the preparation phase: the characters were collected with a big ritual magic. So, only the druid could heal the others and some of them(monk, psion, ???) cloud heal themselfes. That game was much worse then this, but I have got some deja vu feelings at now. Do you know that DM, don't you?
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3. I don't mind if you let your's NPCs to change their action in retrospectively, but after this our PCs will do in the same way.
4. Ally: a person who associates or cooperates with another; supporter.
In game solution:
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Portho leaves and Torin tries to smack him with his morningstar but his strike slows down and he frees from the control. (Thanks for his strong will.) Sorry!
2. Torin was memorized to "self-sustaining mode" and lot of his spell was wasted beacuse the IC meetings. If you calculate the CR of a situtation then you must count this weaknesses from the PCs. This makes things harder.
(I played with a high level (14?) BoED monk and with his wife (leadership -> BoED druid) in a two days long (IRL) game. Our DM didn't let the players to speak the roles in the preparation phase: the characters were collected with a big ritual magic. So, only the druid could heal the others and some of them(monk, psion, ???) cloud heal themselfes. That game was much worse then this, but I have got some deja vu feelings at now. Do you know that DM, don't you?

3. I don't mind if you let your's NPCs to change their action in retrospectively, but after this our PCs will do in the same way.

4. Ally: a person who associates or cooperates with another; supporter.
In game solution:
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Portho leaves and Torin tries to smack him with his morningstar but his strike slows down and he frees from the control. (Thanks for his strong will.) Sorry!