Paladin/Fighter/Anointed Knight - HELP!!!

[Chris1508]

Hi all!
I recently started a 3.5 campaign, set in a medieval low fantasy world. Low fantasy in this sense, doesn't mean no magic, but that most magic is ritualistic in its nature. I ALWAYS play the paladin of the group, so why not stick with that? I see anointed knight as being rather ritualistic, so yeah, it fits the campaign
Im thinking of starting as paladin, going 5 levels here, then 2 levels of fighter (for the extra feats) and then going anointed knight. Just for the win of it, i might do a little Fist of Raziel too?

My question:
How do i (not clumsily) execute such a build? I don't want to be underpowered compared to my allies (a pure favored soul with a scythe, A ranger/rifleman, a pure rouge and a druid/something i can't even pronounce)

Thanks in advance

Oh right! You should likely want to know that our DM have had the insane notion that disabling the XP-penalty of multiclassing wouldn't be broken

 

[Duke Arioch]

5th level in paladin isn't worth that much. Your mount will stay lame. If you go charging smite, you don't have enough smites - AND the smite damage stays pitiful - to make it count for something.
Now, although AK is good in idea department, it is pretty bad in execution. All anointments are either bad, or come too late to make it count.
Now, FoR is good, and I think THAT is the way you should go. It would make having charging smite (5th lvl paladin) worth it. But, you shouldn't go all the way through to the 10th level,as 10th level ability is not all that good. 5 levels here are more than enough for smiting, as 7th and 9th level smite improvement arent that great. Instead, go into:
Hellreaver (Fiendish Codex 2). It drops spell progression, but gets lots of good stuff, like mettle, good will save, and super-sayan like divine fury that gets better as you level.
To conclude, go for something like this: Paladin5/Fist of Raziel 5/Hellreaver 10 (not necessarily in that order). You will get good smiter and have fun abilities to boot, as well as cast very small number of paladin spells of 1st and second level (2 1st, 0 2nd with 12 wis, or 2 1st 1 2nd with 14 wis).

 

[Rhun]

See if you can use the Prestige Paladin class. It is much stronger than the standard paladin at higher levels.

Since you want the feats from a couple levels of fighter, I'd probably go Fighter 2/Cleric 3/Prestige Paladin ? / Fist of Raziel ?. I'm not familiar with Annoited Knight at all, so not sure how that would work in.