Starting off my request for build advice with a pun. Hopefully this works.
I'm playing a cleric in my friend's 3.5 game, and the Bone Knight caught my eye. I lurked for a bit and put together a 1st-level character with a fair amount of potential, but wanted to run it piece-by-piece by all of you and see what you think.
For race, I looked and realized that nobody had hit upon the idea of applying the Lesser Planetouched template to the Zenythri from MM2. It seemed, from a battle cleric perspective, to be a no-brainer.
Our point buy is
ridiculously downright obnoxiously crazy-go-nuts large. 52-point buy. I've chosen Str 20, Dex 10, Con 18, Int 14, Wis 18, Cha 14.
For a deity, I was allowed to create something of my own so long as it wasn't something too far from something that already existed. I used Halmyr from Complete Warrior as a base, adding an undeath element, a bastard sword as a favored weapon, and moving up to LG to create The Undying Lord, a demigod of tactical warfare that emphasizes truly endless patience and long-term views. My DM is pretty cool when it comes to making things up so long as it has a delicious flavor to its fluff.
That brings me to...
Athanasius
LG Lesser Zenythri Cloistered Cleric of The Undying Lord 1
Domains: Knowledge, War, Planning
Feats: (Bonus) Weapon Focus/Proficiency [Bastard Sword]
(Bonus) Extend Spell
Practiced Spellcaster (cleric)
Skill Focus [Concentration]
Persistent Spell
Flaw: Implacable
Flaw: Shaky
Skills: Concentration 4 ranks
Craft (armorsmithing) 4 ranks
Craft (weaponsmithing) 4 ranks
Jump 1 rank
Knowledge (arcana) 4 ranks
Knowledge (nobility and royalty) 2 ranks
Knowledge (religion) 4 ranks
Knowledge (the planes) 4 ranks
Spellcraft 4 ranks
Why cloistered cleric? The way I figure, the initial sacrifice of hit points and base attack are compensated for by my high stats now, and later on by spells and class features. Plus, the extra skill points let me meet the requirements for getting all of this by level 7:
Cloistered Cleric 3/Church Inquisitor 1/Ordained Champion 1/Prestige Paladin 1/Bone Knight 1
Why Church Inquisitor at level 4? For the Inquisition domain, and so I can trade its useless granted power away (along with the Knowledge domain's granted power) for Power Attack and Mounted Combat at level 5, allowing me to qualify for Prestige Paladin much more easily and getting some really nice spells on my list early.
For feats, I'm figuring on picking up Knowledge Devotion at level 3, and Shielded Spellcaster at level 6. I also know what other feats I want to fit in there later(DMM: Persist, Planar Touchstone, Leap Attack, etc).
My real issue is once I've qualified for both Ordained Champion and Bone Knight, how should I progress them? Should I run Bone Knight until I get the bucket of immunities then switch back to Ordained Champ, or fill out Champ right away? Or really, would this build even pass muster on this board?