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Message: <blockquote data-quote="akbearfoot" data-source="post: 4501904" data-attributes="member: 33560">I've been toying with the idea of playing a arcane heirophant, with the Beast totem chain from the Ebberron books.  That way he can have a Displacer beast animal companion/familiar.  The Monster manual says only that displacer beasts are -usually- evil, meaning your DM 'should' allow you to find one that isn't pinging on a paladins radar.They are very smart, and can at least speak common.  They get the 50% miss chance all the time and have natural reach.  The fact that they can speak also means they can easily communicate their own knowlege checks and reactive stuff like spot/listen.The emphasis on this build would be to take the companion spellbound feat so you can share your buff spells with your pet out to a range of 30ft.  Stat buffs, natures favor, whatever you prefer...Wild shape into something nasty and you've essentially got 2 melee brutes for the price of 1 character.  You'll have lower level spells, but you'll have a TON of spell slots available, and can take both druid spells and wizard spells.  Haste comes to mind in a group with lots of melee people.Only downside is its a feat starved build...beast totem, totem companion, natural spell, companion spellbound.  Animal Bond(recommended).  Practiced spellcaster(recommended)  Thats a lot of feats,</blockquote>