I am in the process of creating an 8th level LE Master Summoner for a PbP game.
I am taking the feat versatile summons and have chosen the Dark and Aerial templates.
If I can find a way to get a Wysp on the battlefield I can give many of my summoner monsters the aerial template and therefore +2 to hit and damage if within 30 ft of a wysp.
The only way I know how to do this is taking the familiar feat, with it's pre-req iron will and then improved familiar. But I can't afford to feats.
Is there another way to get one of useful little things where i need them?
You also have Eldritch Heritage (Arcane Bloodline), which, admittedly, is still a feat, and it still has the prerequisite of having Skill Focus (Knowledge [any]), followed by improved familiar if you want a Wysp. However, you can get Skill Focus for free as a half-elf, a race already good for summoners. But that still costs two feats.
I'll mention VMC, but you won't want to go that route, on account of the heavy feat cost.
But, I think all of that is just overthinking the problem. Just pull out a lesser planar binding and bind it to serve you. They're super easy to call (no SR, +2 Will), and, with only 3 HD, cheap, as well. Of course, as you can't cast the spell until level 10 (if you're a normal summoner, anyway, which I presume you are, given your archetype), just get a scroll until then. No problem, really.
House of Green Mothers Pupil trait + Familiar Bond feat + Improved Familiar means that 1 trait and 2 feats can do it.
Thank you both kindly.
On the solutions suggested-
Eldritch Heritage would work. However, I am already planning to take that for the Abyssal bloodline. The level 15 power, meaning if I summon something with the fiendish template or demon sub-type I get one more, and it's interaction with the Superior Summoning feat is just brilliant. Here is hoping we reach level 17.
I am a half elf, with skill focus allocated accordingly.
Lesser Planar Binding- Great idea. Yes I am a normal summoner.
Green Mothers pupil trait- Also a great idea and even better for my purposes. Having the thing there all the time is really the way to go.