A Prestige Class for Conjurers/Summon Monster specialists?

[Twowolves]

I'd forgotten that - thanks. Looking at it, though, I think it's both 3.0 (R&R was one of the really early d20 books), and horribly broken. I mean, Metamagic feats, which can be applied to your summoning spells, but which don't increase the spell level, and you get five of them?

Well it's not quite broken. You can only apply the bonus metamagic to the bonus summoning spells the class gives you. Just switch the order of bonus spells and bonus feats (as it's written, you get a bonus feat at first level that you can't use until you get the first bonus spell at second level) and it's good. Frankly, I think it is the ONLY good summoning prestige class out there. Also remember that the class requires a patron of some sort, and all the bonus spells must reflect the nature of that patron, so the critters the class will enable a caster to summon won't have to conform 100% to the SM/SNA lists.

 

[Vanye]

I don't have it so I have no idea how good it is, but there is the Bonded Summoner from the Mini Handbook.

Lord of Tides from Sandstorm.

Nar Demonbinder from the FR Book Unapproachable East does good at summoning demonic creatures.

 

[IndyPendant]

You can get Lesser Planar Ally added to your spell list, and all it requires really is Complete Divine. Take the Arcane Disciple feat to add spells from a domain to your spell list (each lvel castable 1/day, like domain spells), then select the Summoner Domain (which has Lesser Planar Ally as its fourth level spell). So long as you have a 14 wisdom, you're good to go!

(Except for the fact that you already have Augment Summoning. *shrug* --Maybe the GM will let you swap it out for Arcane Disciple?)

 

[jcfiala]

You can get Lesser Planar Ally added to your spell list, and all it requires really is Complete Divine. Take the Arcane Disciple feat to add spells from a domain to your spell list (each lvel castable 1/day, like domain spells), then select the Summoner Domain (which has Lesser Planar Ally as its fourth level spell). So long as you have a 14 wisdom, you're good to go!

Unfortunately, the Wisdom is like 11. So that's not really an option.

So, it looks like what I might go with is other classes that enhance being a wizard in general - right now I'm looking at possibly both Loremaster and Archmage, and also I'm considering dabbling in the Human Paragon class - I'll lose one level of spellcasting, but the other benefits seem very strong.