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I have a question. If you Multiclass out of the Alchemist class does your Homunculus still grow?

I was thinking of doing a Gestalt idea and it would be Alchemist 5/Shadowdancer 5//Witch 10

But I worry the Homunculus will remain at 5 HD.

Ok so I was looking through the old 3.5 boards and so forth and came across the Easy Bake Wizard threads. And in them you had an ACF that allowed a Wizard to prepare spells from inside his own head. Kind of like the Arcanist can do.

Now what this ACF did (Drag Mag 375) was trade off Scribe Scroll and the Familiar for the ability to keep spells without putting them into your spell book.

Well I am not seeing how that could not be used for the Arcanist at least in someones home game. Scribe Scroll is a feat, so you trade away your first level feat and you can gain a familiar with your first exploit if you wanted too.

So how balanced or fair is it to trade away your first exploit and your first level feat (or human bonus feat) to gain the ability to store spells in your own head rather then have them written down in a vulnerable spellbook?

This seems to me to be fair because at early levels this means you are trading off a lot for a bit more security. A feat and a Exploit seems like a lot to a first level character.

Sure at later levels they don't seem so much but at later levels most arcanist have multitudes of hidden books or wards to protect their books.

Ok so if my know it all character does not pan out I had a back up plan.

Unchained Monk//Arcanist
Aasimar (Peri-kin) +2 Int and +2 Cha
With the 1st feat being Kung Fu Genius

Kung Fu Genius is a 3.5 feat that allowed you to change a Monk's AC bonus and all class features that depend on Wis to INT instead.

So with that
Flaw: Knowledge Devotion
Flaw: Kung Fu Genius
Bonus: Improved Unarmed Strike
1: Eschew Materials
Bonus: Improved Grapple
Bonus: Combat Reflexes
3: Improved Initiative
5: Intensify Spell

Traits
Magical lineage
(Left Open)

Karin Style + Strike seems like it would be very effective with Knowledge Devotions.

As for the Paladin//Bard that does look like an interesting build I will need to look into it.

Ok so I wanted to make a know it all character is as adapt at swinging his sword as he is with opening a book and schooling you on poor grammar choices.

So the gestalt is the Investigator and Slayer classes.
The race is the Samsaran race and with their Shards of the Past Racial trait I can pick up Fly and Heal as class skills which unless I am much mistaken would give this character every class skill as a class skill.

So I was going to take Knowledge Devotion from 3.5 as a feat somewhere along the line to make use of the good Int focus and the muscle behind the slayer.

But what is a good build for a character who is basically The Doctor without regeneration. I did consider that and might use that reincarnating oil to become an Aasimar if he dies (Alternate racial thing being 1d4 raised deads in a life time.)

Any input?