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Options: A. 10 more levels of Paladin (maybe mixing in some Pious Templar). Feats: Extra Turning, Divine Might, Divine Shield, and Extra Smiting. B. Pick up Divine Might, Improved Sunder, and an adamantine longsword. Since this is the end of the campaign, you don't have to worry about...

I think a Crusader/Dragon Shaman would work well - they both benefit from a decent Charisma, and the Dragon Shaman adds auras (such as Fast Healing) which don't interfere with a Crusader's abilities - and a ranged attack, which the Crusader could benefit from. -Stuart

Can you use the Human Paragon class from Unearthed Arcana? If so, a single level (in place of one of the scout levels) will give you Knowledge (Arcana) as a class skill forever - eliminating the need to take the Education feat. Three levels might not be a bad deal either. Scout 4/Assassin...

Dire Otter. Treat it as a dire weasel without the Ex attacks but with a swim speed (30'). -Stuart

Beguiler/Master of Masks Beguiler gives you all the thiefiness you could want, plus a great spell list, minus the evocation. Master of Masks (with the mage mask) gives you the blasting ability. -Stuart

You could just give them Fighter bonus feats instead. I don't think that would be horribly unbalanced. They'd get more choice, but the combat style gives them access to feats without the prereqs.... so... it is more or less balanced. -Stuart

Thanks. My brain wasn't working. -Stuart

The below is, more or less, the build I played in an incredibly-overpowered game. We were allowed normal multiclassing with gestalt but there were serious limits on racial HD and LAs: 1 - Sorcerer 1/Human Paragon 1 2 - Monk 1/Human Paragon 2 3 - Monk 2/Human Paragon 3 4 - Sorcerer 2/Fighter 1 5...

Ranger to level 6: Feats: Mounted Combat (1), Rapid Shot (2, B), Mounted Archery (3), Manyshot (6, B), and either that improved animal companion feat or Point Blank Shot (6). Mount as animal companion. -Stuart

Someone up above said to treat the horse like a cohort. Here's a thought on how to do that without a feat. Horses that survive an encounter get and amount of xp for that encounter equal to 1/4 of the xp for that encounter that their rider gets. -Stuart

Is power level most effectively determined by a duel? Some character types are particularly strong or weak against other character types. I propose a battery of tests for two characters of class level instead (fighting an NPC party of lower level, fighting specific monsters, fighting a horde of...

At +0 LA, it is a pretty good deal. -Stuart

Much of it depends on the rest of your build. When I played a hideous gestalt sorcerer/dragon disciple/paladin type, I used Leonal a lot... because of the Pounce ability. -Stuart

Wild Shape is useful until you get Shapechange. After that, you don't really need it anyway. -Stuart

I played a Druid to 20th level. I was far from min-maxed. My physical ability scores weren't minimized despite point-buy. I never even used an animal companion - or summon natures ally (I used the spontaneous rejuvenation option... but only rarely). Three of the other players in the campaign had...

Yeah. Pretty much. The multiclassing restriction rarely made sense to me - so I tend to ignore it... and Monk at level 1 gives you more skill points than fighter, so.... -Stuart

How about: Monk 1: Stunning (B), something else Fighter 1: Weapon Focus (longspear) Monk 2: Combat Reflexes (B), Serpent Strike -Stuart

Here is my version of Drow, in case anyone is interested. -Stuart

Oh.... and make it Open Game Content while they are at it.... (I can dream.) -Stuart

What would be beautiful? A book that had different chapters: Class Features - an alphabetical list of class features with mechanics for each, independent of any specific class. Status Effects - something like what is in the back of the PHB, but limited to status effects and expanded. Combat...