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That's easy. Just take 13 levels in Magus so you can cast:
MONSTROUS PHYSIQUE III
School transmutation (polymorph); Level alchemist 5, magus 5, sorcerer/wizard 5
This spell functions as monstrous physique II, except it also allows you to assume the form of a Diminutive or Huge creature of the monstrous humanoid type. If the form you assume has any of the following abilities, you gain the listed ability: burrow 30 feet, climb 90 feet, fly 90 feet (good maneuverability), swim 90 feet, all-around vision, blindsense 30 feet, darkvision 60 feet, low-light vision, scent, blood frenzy, cold vigor, constrict, ferocity, freeze, grab, horrific appearance, jet, leap attack, mimicry, natural cunning, overwhelming, poison, pounce, rake, sound mimicry, speak with sharks, trample, trip, and web. If the creature has the undersized weapons special quality, you gain that quality.Huge monstrous humanoid: If the form you take is that of a Huge monstrous humanoid, you gain a +6 size bonus to your Strength, a –4 penalty to your Dexterity, and a +6 natural armor bonus.
Sorry if it's not that helpful for your fighter. Just the only way to become huge sized that comes to mind right now
Psionic Expansion
The Poised Bearing feat will let you count as one size larger than your actual size for determining the size of creatures against whom you can bull rush, drag, overrun, and trip.
Imposing Bearing increases that to two sizes. Both feats are from the Armor Master's Handbook.
So a medium character using Enlarge Person and Imposing Bearing would count as gargantuan and could attempt trips even against colossal creatures.
Depending on your mental statistics and how many levels of Fighter you have currently, you could multiclass into either wizard or druid. Wizard would get you the ability to cast Monstrous Physique spells at a reasonable level, and you could go into the classic Eldritch Knight prestige class.
There is a new feat that I can't recall the name of that will let you avoid losing the spellcasting level you normally would upon entry to Eldritch Knight; depending on what traits you have, you could also take Additional Traits for Magical Knack and something else useful, to keep a high caster level.
If you multiclass druid, you could eventually become a Huge-sized Earth elemental (using Shaping Focus to keep your wildshape level high), and get access to the feat Powerful Shape.
Not and stay a fighter. And easier method would be to make friends with either a Brown Fur arcanist, or alchemist with infusion, so you can gain access to monstrous physique, and giant form spells which will polymorph you but let you keep your equipment.
Giant Form spell. Or I think it is actually Giant Form II that allows huge size. You can also get great stuff like regeneration, rend, darkvison, and energy resistance.
It would probably take a custom item that would be priced like other items that allow a personal range spell, 3/Day or whatever.
Giant-hide armor would do the trick.
enlarge person is not a polymorph effect... that means you can actually stack it with most of these suggestions! the bonuses to your stats are size bonuses, so they won't stack, but if all you're looking for is the reach then monstrous physique III plus enlarge person makes you gargantuan.
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enlarge person is not a polymorph effect... that means you can actually stack it with most of these suggestions! the bonuses to your stats are size bonuses, so they won't stack, but if all you're looking for is the reach then monstrous physique III plus enlarge person makes you gargantuan.
From enlarge person: "Multiple magical effects that increase size do not stack."
The Poised Bearing feat will let you count as one size larger than your actual size for determining the size of creatures against whom you can bull rush, drag, overrun, and trip.
Imposing Bearing increases that to two sizes. Both feats are from the Armor Master's Handbook.
So a medium character using Enlarge Person and Imposing Bearing would count as gargantuan and could attempt trips even against colossal creatures.
These feats don't seem to be in any of the online resources.
If you stay a Fighter, but find a way to run your UMD up through the roof(*), you could fairly reliably use scrolls of Monstrous Physique or Giant Form. This would be expensive, but if you knew ahead of time that you were going to have a serious fight with theoretically trippable but really big monsters, it might be worth it.
(*)Things that could boost your UMD beyond what maxed skill ranks would do:
- Magical Aptitude feat
- Skill Focus (UMD)
- If somebody else in your party has the UMD Skill Unlock and 5 ranks, they can Aid Another for you (normally not possible).
- Dangerously Curious trait (or if you have a decent Intelligence but not much Charisma, use Pragmatic Activator trait, but you can't have both traits, because they are both Magic traits)
- Have somebody cast Eagle's Splendor on you -- although this would have lessened or no effect on someone with a Charisma-boosting magic item, as a Fighter you probably won't have one unless you specifically built for Intimidate or UMD (or maybe other social skills), so this will still be useful for somebody to cast on you; this will also help you make your enemies think twice about messing with you
- Have a friendly Bard (or somebody else having the right Bardic Performance) use Inspire Competence on you (this could be the same caster that casts Eagle's Splendor on you)
These feats don't seem to be in any of the online resources.The Poised Bearing feat will let you count as one size larger than your actual size for determining the size of creatures against whom you can bull rush, drag, overrun, and trip.
Imposing Bearing increases that to two sizes. Both feats are from the Armor Master's Handbook.
So a medium character using Enlarge Person and Imposing Bearing would count as gargantuan and could attempt trips even against colossal creatures.
They are Armor Mastery feats from page 17 of the Player Companion: Armor Master's Handbook. In case you play PFS, they are PFS legal. There are a number of threads discussing them, but you'll probably find this one the most informative.
^Weird, www.d20pfsrd.com doesn't seem to have the Armor Mastery Feats, even though they have a fair amount of other stuff from the Armor Master's Handbook. Archives of Nethys doesn't either, but that is because of no updates at all since 2016-08-07.