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Hoo-boy.  Well, hopefully I haven't screwed it up!  Anywyay, thanks for your advice.  I'll have to give it some careful thought.  I'll hop on discord sometime and pick everyone's brain's about it. 

So, weirdly, I've never played a bard in 3.5 before... until now.  The class just never appealed to me before and none of the character concepts I've dreamed up every really seemed to fit the class (I don't play minstrels or singers and such).  But I came up with a new character based on an old 1st edition half-elf fighter/mage/thief I used to play waaaay back in the day, and the bard class actually seemed the best way to emulate this character.  Also, you guys have implemented changes to the class that address most of the things that I disliked about the class, so it's far more appealing to me now.

But... I don't really know how to build a 3.5 bard effectively.  My dude is DEX (16) /CHA (16) focused, with most everything else being relegated to dump stat status.  He's supposed to be a sort of corsair/buccaneer like fighter that uses rapier and dagger, supplemented with magic.  Presently he's a 7th lvl bard.  His main weaknesses are his poor damage (STR 10) and low hit points (CON 10).  I was thinking of taking him to lvl 12 as bard and then prestiging for 8 lvls of red dragon disciple.  I had also considered Eldritch Knight, but he can't learn new spells as a spontaneous caster, so I decided that route didn't appeal to me.  I also considered assassin, but it didn't really fit my character concept, so I threw that out too.

So, yeah, I'm thinking either I should just go straight bard all the way to 20, or 12 bard/8 RDD.  Any thoughts from experienced bard players out there?

Thanks for any advice you can give me.