The feats that we chose were as follows
- Sacred Vow -> VoP
- Psionic Fist (Only if Psionic)
- Improved Natural Attack
- Fists of Iron
- Flying Kick
- Hammer Fist
- Tashalatora
PrCs to consider:
- Psionic Fist
- Fist of the Forest
Vow of Poverty is underpowered (as in, if you bought items to replicate its effects, you'd have gold left over). One of the best things you can get from it is Touch of Golden Ice, and you can take that as a normal feat anyway. It's not worth giving up things like dorjes and flight items (though wings can make up for the latter).
Fists of Iron doesn't grant a significant bonus, and Hammer Fist is hard to use.
Psionic Fist sucks compared to Tashalatora. Your manifesting won't be as strong as plain psychic warrior, and you need to pay a feat to get in (as well as take a rather pointless third level in monk) - the result also gives you fewer bonus feats than a PW. Even if you can stack it with Tashalatora to progress your monk abilities twice as fast, it's still not really worth it.
War mind would make a better psionic PrC choice, though I'd still go PW since it lets you use psionics from an earlier stage.
He plans on playing him completely offensively.
Half-orc (or
desert half-orc) with
Headlong Rush, dragonborn [wings] template optional. Nasty if combined with
psionic lion's charge or a 1-level barbarian dip with the ACF from Complete Champion which grants pounce.
True, unless you have houserules in place, you'll lose rage by being lawful, but two levels of half-orc paragon make up for that (grant rage which does not depend on alignment, and stacks uses of existing rage).Also, find some way to apply the valorous quality to your unarmed strikes.
