Swashbuckling Brawler

[josh hill 935]

So I had an idea, and was wondering how well you guys thought it would work.

The basic idea was to take a brawler, give him a rapier and some light armour and max out on dex. He would go TWF, using the rapier as his main weapon, and fist as a secondary weapon, and take the disarm combat maneuver and try and focus on maxing that.

I realise it might not be 100% optimal, but it might be quite fun. I think you could actually make it a very very effective disarm build, and maybe also max out on AoA feats to cash in on opponents not having a weapon?

What would make it more effective, and what would be its major downfalls?

[BadBird]

Brawler's Flurry is limited to Close or Monk weapons, and there's no real reason to use two weapons with it. I guess you could ignore Brawler's flurry and just take the TWF feats, but it seems kind of pointless to be a Brawler and not use their major feature.

There are lots of interesting ways to go TWF with a weapon and unarmed strikes, and there are some ways to flurry a rapier. But I'm not sure I'd use a Brawler for either thing.

[stringbeanbuddy]

Your build sounds exactly like a Free Hand Fighter.