Hello there, Sinfire Titan informed me that I should just ask you all about this, so here goes!
After a long bout of two campaigns of Shadowrun, my regular group is getting back into 3.5, which means I finally get to play instead of DM (yay!). And, having just bought a copy of Magic of Incarnum off of Amazon, I've become adamant in wanting to play something out of the book. Clearly not a Soulborn, but that goes without saying.
Important information:
Starting ECL: 5
Standard WBL
Allowed Books: Between the lot of us, we own most everything in 3.5, save campaign specific stuff, and what's allowed is largely the same. If a resource can be found about a feat/class/etc (yes, the old crystalkeep archives would count), I can probably use it.
The current party makeup (characters whom I can suggest my own bits of optimization for, as nothing's 100% set in stone yet):
A by-the-books Warlock, probably going to try and also be the "party face".
A guy who "is like a klepto, really likes to steal things, kinda theifey" (direct quote; this guy also is likely to not be there for half the gaming sessions, and hasn't even started real work on the character)
A Warforged Barbarian optimized for speed, with Improved Resiliency so he can run at ~50 MPH all day long. Also has 2 levels of Dungeoncrasher Fighter because he liked the idea of running things into walls.
So, I'm going to be something out of MoI, preferably something that can cover multiple party roles as we're... lacking a bit, in my opinion. My current thought was to go Azurin (Cloistered?) Cleric 3/Incarnate 1/Sapphire Hierarch 1+ (and I doubt we'll get past 14, but who knows), using Theraputic Mantle + Lifebond Vestments to boost party healing considerably, and use most of my spells/day on actual spellcasting... but I can do that same trick as Incarnate 5 and a wand of CLW.
Notable houserules:
DMM is allowed, but DMM: Persist is not
The Illumian + Improved Sigil: Krau early entry trick to prestige classes is not allowed.
Content out of campaign-specific books is allowed, provided we have access to the actual content, but campaign-specific content is not (for instance, "regional" feats from Forgotten Realms are not allowed).
We've already rolled for stats, and the array everyone gets is 11, 13, 13, 14, 16, 17 (EDIT: I meant 17, really, I did!)
Really, I want to fit in with and augment the party, without stepping on too many people's toes. Any thoughts would be great.
Thanks!
Quick edit: We are allowed to take up to two flaws, if that might matter.