Please help me turn this idea into a PsyWar?

[Redblade8]

Hello,

I'm at a very real risk that I'll actually be playing my first PF adventure very soon, huzzah. :) My first leaning is towards one of the stabby-bits-to-the-face classes. I was trying to think of something I might want to do that has a bit of panache, and I figure a psychic warrior amply fits that bill. Armed only with my readings of this forum, and my dim memories of 3.5, I started putting together some feats for a build idea. Can I get a little feedback on this?

He's supposed to be a sword & board type (battleaxe, actually, but same principle). As far as paths, I was figuring Weaponmaster for the first one, and add in Survivor for the second one. Race is almost certainly half-orc.

1 TWF, Imp. Sh. Bash
2 Ps. Sh. Bash
3 Ps. Weapon
5 Dazzling Display, Wpn. Focus
7 C. Ref.
8 Shatter Defense
9 P. Att.
11 Deep Impact, Psi. Meditation
13 Shield Slam
14 Imp. Bull Rush
15 Deadly Stroke
17 Shield Master, Gr. Psi. Weapon
19 Iron Will
20 (Undecided, maybe ITWF?)

A thought I had while making this guy: I get the impression that Expanding up to Large (and later, Huge) is a very common trick for PWs, but the Dex penalty Expansion hits you with would leave you unable to use TWF if you end up below 15, right? So that particular wrinkle might not fly for this particular guy.

Thanks in advance for your time!

Later on,
Red

[Redblade8]

Um, I originally posted this in the Advice forum, and it would seem that someone moved it here. I admit I'm very new here, but I'd have figured a request for build help to belong in Advice ("Hints, tips, how-to guides, character builds, and requests for advice..."). Any idea why this got moved here?

Red

[GeneticDrift]

Maybe it's the 3rd party content. or the subject line is easily misread as starting a war against or with psychics. That's why I clicked.

[Redblade8]

Wow, not even close to what I was aiming for. :-\ Sorry to mislead...

[ShadowcatX]

Anything with third party content generally gets kicked into the third party forum. I'm not sure why you got kicked here.

And yeah, the dex penalty will drop your feats off your character if you go below the required dex, however at higher (read very high) levels the enhancement bonus to dex from your belt will take care of it.

That aside, two weapon fighting is a difficult choice for a psychic warrior. It increases the class's mad, and subtracts from the class's ability to hit its foes and it doesn't gain a huge static bonus to damage on its attacks like a paladin does to compensate for the mad. You can do it, just know that you'll have an uphill battle.