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Message: <blockquote data-quote="reichtfeld" data-source="post: 771282" data-attributes="member: 10264">Boots of Springing and Striding are a natural.  They are probably the best way to spend 6,000 gold in my opinion (the price was fixed in DMG errata).  There simply isn't anything I'd be willing to sacrifice for either Dash or an EWP.  In Dragon 301, halfling rapier is listed as a martial weapon and the flavor text explains that a lot of human swashbucklers use it as an off-hand weapon, so I don't think that it would be an exotic weapon for medium-size or other races.  I don't think of the character as being a puny damage dealer, but certainly not a slobbering damage machine.  Against opponents vulnerable to critical hits, the rapier will be doing 1d6+5 damage +2d6 precise strike and threaten a critical on a 12-20 with a keen weapon to do an additional 1d6+5.  With a +20 BAB, a magic weapon, and a high dexterity I think that makes for some respectable damage potential from a defensive-oriented fighter.  Against opponents immune to criticals the damage potential drops off steeply, suffering from "rogue syndrome."  In that case go ahead and make an off-hand attack with the defending halfling rapier since you won't get precise strike damage anyways.Granted, this build is geared for a group's secondary fighter.  Spring attack isn't a "big priority" since the enormous AC and parry mean easily going toe-to-toe and trading full attacks, but it does give the option to stick and move if it's strategically advantageous.  Spring attack comes into its own being able to avoid AoOs when setting up the flank for the primary fighter/damage machine.  And +8 mobility comes into its own when you've run out of your 20' of tumble movement when rolling past the front line towards the enemy caster.Depending on the group's composition and playstyle I'd remove Agile Riposte, bump everything up, and include Protective Parry.  Then always position yourself to protect the other melee combatants or make yourself the ultimate bodyguard for your group's spellcaster(s).  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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