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"Why I fight against evil people? Well, because being mean to other people doesn't make society a liveable place. I don't want my personal life to be influenced by douchebags who want to make other's life miserable. Plus, this cult is about to bring about an apocalypse, isn't this enough motivation?"

Thank you everybody for your answers!

I wanted to share a story on the matter of evil by tradition (homebrew setting with Greyhawk's pantheon + Eilistraee, Sune and some other FR god)
During my PF campaign, the first "boss" was, Grimrat, a goblin cleric of Maglubyiet. "Ok, i guess" you would probably say. Well, it's not your typical servant of Maglubyiet.
He was a good hearted goblin. The goblin knew love from his mother, who treated him gently when he was ill, because that's what a mother does. He feigned death to escape the goblin society, he wanted to become a good person. He tried to act good and help people, but racism almost got him killed. The goblin understood he could not continue like that and eventually abandoned the thought of doing good.

That night, a devil presented itself to Grimrat in a dream, posing as Maglubyiet and told him:
"You weak fool, don't you see you are wasting your life trying to be gentle? There is no hope for you, your only hope is to come with me and embrace your race. There is no other hope, those humanoids are evil and hateful, you deserve a better life! Go to the temple of Maglubyet and become a priest! This way the meaning of your life will be fulfilled!"

Out of despair and deep sadness, the good goblin became a member in good standing of the cult of Maglubyiet and destroyed the temple of Eilistraee where Amelia (a PC NG aasimar-drow cleric of Eilistraee)lived. Amelia happened to discover Grimrat's story and the group accidentally killed the goblin in the rush of the battle.
She grew an emotional connection to him, and prayed for his soul to go to Arborea instead, because while he behaved bad, he really wanted to be good.

That prayer alone was a disaster. Grimrat was almost ready to go to Hell, but he became a ghost, torn between Hell and Arborea. He wanted to be good, and to do something good, he wanted redemption at least in death. He haunted the location of his death until the PCs finally helped him pass away.

To be more accurate, the Bard in the first editions was a Fighter/Rogue/Druid. A DIVINE caster.

Then it became arcane (it had a spellbook), and then in 3.0/3.5 it became a spontaneous caster.

The most accurate example of actual bards we have in 3.5 is the Fochluchan Lyrist.

My problem with Power points is:

Ok, i manifest this, and augment this way, but wait I have discount that makes this, so i put this metamagic feat that lowers my effective CL but hightens the damage and overchannel bla bla bla. At the end, figuring out how many damage you'll be rolling is a little complicated to me both as a gm and a player. I lose more time figuring out how much damage I'm going to deal with psionics that with some sword slashes and magic blasts, because damage does not scale with psionics and there are a bigger number of variables.
That's not exactly the same thing with HPs.

"I cannot be caged. I cannot be controlled. Understand this as you die, ever pathetic, ever fools!" [cit. Jon Irenicus - Baldur's Gate 2]

I'll consider adding in the bind effects to the table, BUT that is a seriously big table to try and squeeze into a document. Let me look at a couple different layouts and see if I can come up with something that'll give you that information without looking seriously ugly or adding 5 extra pages to the document(s).

Try this:

Belt= Be
Body = Bo
Chest = Ch
Hand= Ha
Head= He
Feet= Ft
Neck= Ne
Shoulders = Sh
Wrists = Wr

Example:
Forcestrike Knuckles^Ha | Dae/Viz | Deal force damage with unarmed strike or ranged attacks | Increase die of force damage

Gorget of the wyrm^Ne, Sh | Viz | Gain breath weapon attack | Improved breath weapon or Wings

Gunstlingers hit touch AC.

I often use hit and run ambushes. Sure, you could cast your spells to buff your AC, but I can outlive your buffs by waiting and making you waste resources, running away from you as fast as I can, and then coming back.