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Only PFS legal way I've found so far that'll get me the feats I need is a reduce person'd halfling (or gnome) fighter 1/ranger X, taking Boon Companion to bring the mount up to par.
Rangers get access to hawks/eagles/owls that stay small their entire career, and get a few juicy (and necessary) bonus feats.
Damagewise, I can see the build holding up to/surpassing a normal charger *IF* I can find a way to make Steadfast Slayer work -- stacking this with Risky Striker (now functional on medium + creatures) and Power Attack would be brutal.
If you are the only character threatening an opponent and you successfully attack the opponent with a two-handed melee weapon, for each size category larger than you that opponent is, you gain a +2 bonus on your melee damage roll.
Issue with this is as a tiny creature with a reach weapon, I still only threaten adjacent squares, same as the mount. So....I could either reduce animal on the mount (and take the ride check penalties) or blow a feat on Lunge, unless someone else has another solution...?
The build wouldn't TRULY come online until level 7+ but I adore the concept enough that I'd probably just stack GM credit for a few months until I could put it together.
Thoughts?
I'd say the easiest way is to take the lunge feat. However, you could always used a small sized lance two-handed while mounted. IIRC. you may take a penalty to hit however.
dangit avr...
Sorry, deleted my first reply when I realised he needed more reach than his small size mount.
Could you UMD a wand of long arm, or dip a level in a class which gets it on their spell list?
Rangers get access to hawks/eagles/owls that stay small their entire career...
Just in case you're not aware, if you don't want the bird to get bigger, you can choose to increase its Constitution and Dexterity instead.
Instead of taking the listed benefit at 4th or 7th level, you can instead choose to increase the companion's Dexterity and Constitution by 2.
Wow, I just noticed how clumsily that sentence is written. Redundancy!