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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zathraas" data-source="post: 2461027" data-attributes="member: 26120">Pickaxe - another great option although it may be too late is the racial substitution from Races of the Wild.  A halfling druid taking these racial substition levels doesn't get to spontaneous summon animals but gets a list of spells that he can cast spontaneously that help his mount companion like Spider Climb, Jump, Freedom of Movement.  The Beastmaster PrC does give +3 to the effective druid levels for animal companion AND the levels in Beastmaster stack as well.   You do lose a level of spellcasting but gain +1 BAB, +2 Fort and Refl, 4 skill points.   At later levels the Beastmaster can take extra companions. Another interesting option for a character that really loves his companion is taking enough levels in an arcane spellcasting class to qualify for Arcane Heirophant which is also in Races of the Wild.    Arcane and Divine spellcasting increases for each level, the Arcane Hiero levels stack for animal companion abilities and the really interesting thing is that the companion also becomes the caster's familiar and gets some of the benefits of a familiar - Intelligence and special abilities.</blockquote>