I am trying to make a Bard based off the old 2nd Ed Blade Kit for the Bard. I am trying to figure out how to do it?
I am trying to make it as archtype for the bard. basicly give up bardic knowledge ie for something
The Arcane Duelist Archetype may be what you're looking for. It replaces the bardic know stuff features with more combat-related abilities.
Dervish Dancer archetype, or Dawnflower Dervish. Both work well for the concept.
And the latter works even if you don't want to go with one handed dervish dance garbage.
The archetype gives you double bonuses on inspire courage. That is enough that it starts off as strong as rage...and you end up directly on par with a barbarian (ie- it overcomes the difference of BAB entirely).
So it is strong enough to work with any particular style you want. Honestly, it works best with TWF or archery, since it has damage that happens on every hit rather than some stat thing that could get halved. Toss some arcane strike on that, adn you are a great damage dealer.
Defense is a bit 'meh' due to d8 and need for light armor for spell casting, admittedly. But there are spells for concealment and miss chances on his list, and you can grab mithral breast plates with armor expert trait alone... so it is fine.
But this is separate from the thread's point. This is a fine swordsman bard, but this is looking for a conversion of some older thing.
The Blade bard would best be represented by the Dazzling Display feat line.