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Well, first of all, those are all combat maneuvers and to note, a lot easier to deal with in pathfinder. The guisarme or whip is your weapon, and the Lore Warden fighter archetype is the best at combat maneuvers. You could also go Archer archetype fighter and perform combat maneuvers at a distance with a bow.
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The Lore Warden archetype is here. It's originally from Pathfinder Field Guide, which a player or a gm might have if one happens to play Pathfinder Society.
I don't think you necessarily need a build. Lore Warden doesn't even need intelligence, since it gets Combat Expertise as a freebie, so you can concentrate on Con, Str and Dex. I'd almost suggest a dwarf, since they have a con bonus and bonuses against maneuvers and spells, poisons, etc. A dungeon crasher dwarf just fits, in my opinion.
If you pick dwarf, it qualifies your character for Dorn-dergar, which is very similar to a meteor hammer. Get this feat and this one as well and you'll have a versatile instrument in your hands.
Just my 2 cp.
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There are only a few prestige classes, and other than the couple in the CRB and APG, they are all for regional flavor in Golarion(speciality knight and priest classes mostly).
Pathfinder uses archetypes to do a lot of the special ability and specialization stuff that prestige classes used to do in 3.5. Plus the main reason for prestige classes in 3.5 (lots of dead levels for many classes) is no longer true in Pathfinder.
There are still some decent dips in Pathfinder, but with more to lose in your main class now, its not quite as no-brainer as it was in 3.5.
Perhaps it won't fit your intended character build, but its worth noting that the oracle of battle can be a good maneuver character as well. One of the better trip characters I have seen was an oracle with guisarme, maneuver(trip) revelation and enlarge(of of their bonus spells).
I'd almost suggest a dwarf, since they have a con bonus and bonuses against maneuvers and spells, poisons, etc. A dungeon crasher dwarf just fits, in my opinion.
He cannot choose dwarf if he wants to use the Knockback feat from Races of Stone. It has a prerequisite of being large sized or bigger or having the Powerful Build racial ability so that you can be treated as large sized.
Knockback will not work as written in 3.5 anymore due to the change in how power attack works. In our game we simply require you to power attack for Knockback to work and add the damage bonus from power attack to the CM roll for the bull rush. The rest is the same.
You may want to talk to your GM about it in any case, the above paragraph is very much a house rule which he may not want to use.
Also, iirc, there is a new Knockback feat in Ultimate Combat which you may want to look at.
Also, iirc, there is a new Knockback feat in Ultimate Combat which you may want to look at.
I don't have that book so I'll see if any of the other players has it.
Can anybody tell me if I need to be large for that one and if it does the same?A quick and dirty search of the PFSD20SRD site came up with 'Knockback' as a Barbarian Rage power. My memory may be faulty as a feat. I will have to go through the book tonight when I get home to check.
I really need to speak against allowing 3.5 book with PF. Any time I have seen or heard it happen it was a train wreck in terms of balance.
Well then consider this a tale where it has not been. Balance train wrecks only happen when the GM lets them and our GM allows pretty much all 3.5 and Pathfinder content and it has not been an issue in our game at all. It also helps that our group are not optimisers exept for me really and then I make sure the GM is aware of what I am trying to do and is ok with it. And I understand if she decides that after play something is too strong and work with her to change it for the better.
That has happened once btw.
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I really need to speak against allowing 3.5 book with PF. Any time I have seen or heard it happen it was a train wreck in terms of balance.
I disagree the two systems together allow you to create Awesome character idea/arcs... I love the combination of 3.5+PF.
Dungeon Crasher is close to an archetype as 3.5 has. If I remember right it just replaces your bonsue Fighter feats at level 4 and 6 with Bull rushing abilities to cause dmg... 4d6 and 8d6 but those numbers maybe off as I don;t have my book at this time. Sounds like a great character.