Help with a Daelkyr Half-Blood Necromancer Gestalt Cleric

[Von Krieger]

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/42230002/Dela%20CS.txt

Character sheet thus far is there. I think everything that isn't WotC original has a reference or a link to it.

http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=215195
We're using stuff from here as well.

I think I might be overdoing things a little bit in my mad desire to make a Necromancer Paladin sort of a thing, and might be hamstringing myself in the process.

My main hang up at the moment is that I was aiming to get a bit of Metamagic spell reduction via the Spellfilter Claw from the Daelkyr Half-Blood thread on GiantITP I linked to above.

Only just now it has come to my attention that lurking off in the shadows of the Psionics books is a heretofore unknown to me third type of ability damage dubbed 'ability burn' which cannot be cured by any means except naturally healing 1 point per day. Also that the binding feat I picked up had a single specific ability, so I'd have to swap out my Dragonfire Adept level with one of Binder.

With a hefty chunk of background already written, I find myself stuck a bit as to how to go about acquiring a different source of metamagic fueling with what I am capable of. I am wanting to be able to use it for Persistent Spell and Anchored Spell (third party feat from the book Eldritch Sorcery which replaces paying a GP cost with an increased spell level) in order to have some solid all-day buffs and cost-free creation of undead.

I am also attempting to get some decent usage out of Knowledge Devotion, which is another key feature of the character's concept. Though odds are it's likely that I could find a better source of +To Hit and +Damage. Though I do rather like the warrior sage background I have going on.

I'm not really built to optimize Divine Metamagic at the moment, and it's one of the two things I can think of to help with metamagic costs.

The other one is a feat called Undead Battery from Dragonlance's Age of Mortals, but that is going to end up costing three feats, two of which are Spell Focuses, and requires some additional voodoo to get access to a 6th level spell. The only way I can think of to do that at 8th level is to use the aforementioned metamagic to fuel a Heightened spell, or fiddle about with Versatile Spellcaster.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

[JohnnyMayHymn]

so far you have:
Cloistered Cleric 4, Master of Shrouds (+)4 // Warrior1, DFA1, Warrior(+)1, Master of Shrouds 1, Prestige Paladin of Tyranny 2, Bone Knight 1, Prestige Paladin of Tyranny (+)1

am I reading this right?

DM is allowing PrC//PrC? with Gestalt?     ( Planar Shepherd // Incantatrix; ok, had to get that out of my system )

What do you think the max level your character is likely to reach in-game?  (b/c Master of Shrouds tapers off in the late game, unless I missed some synergy)

Is DFA for a Prerequisite? or for the +6 to knowledge's feat?  I would definitely drop a level of something (not Cloistered Cleric obviously) for a Binder level if you're planning on taking ability drain.

[Von Krieger]

I think he is. I've actually never seen someone invoke no prc/prc in gestalt before.

Considering that most of the other players are taking advantage of being able to give up one side of the Gestalt to play a Mind Flayer, I don't think prc arrangement is going to be a problem.

DFA is to poke up Will by 2 to enter Master of Shrouds, the incantation for the Knowledge checks was a bonus.

Things kind of fell apart, since the item I was going to use to turn points of Con into metamagic used the little known mechanic of "ability burn" from one of the Psionics books. Can't be healed except naturally, so a level of Binder wouldn't work.

I did manage to sort out a bit of a better build using one of the Paragon classes, and two feats mentioned in that thread. Am still using the Spellfilter Claw symbiont, but I'm picking metamagics that are +2 or below, since I can essentially use those for free.