Swordplay Style(Combat,Style)Source Weapon Master's Handbook pg.17Your defense relies on perfectly timed attacks.Prerequisites:Combat Expertise, Weapon Focus with the chosen weapon, base attack bonus +3.
Benefit:Choose one weapon from the heavy blades or light blades fighter weapon group. While using this style, wielding the chosen weapon, and fighting defensively or using either the total defense action or the Combat Expertise feat, you gain a +1 shield bonus to your Armor Class. In addition, you do not take the penalty on melee attacks from Combat Expertise on the first attack roll you make each turn. You still take the penalty on additional attacks, including attacks of opportunity.
Special:A character with the swashbuckler weapon trainingACG or weapon training (heavy blades or light blades) class feature can use Swordplay Style with any light or one-handed piercing melee weapon, heavy blade, or light blade, respectively, in addition to the chosen weapon.
Swordplay Upset(Combat)Source Weapon Master's Handbook pg.17ou catch opponents off guard with your attacks.Prerequisites:Combat Expertise, Improved Feint, Swordplay Style, Weapon Focus with the chosen weapon, base attack bonus +5.
Benefit:While using Swordplay Style, as an immediate action, you can attempt a feint against an opponent that makes a melee attack against you and misses.
Swordplay Deflection(Combat)Source Weapon Master's Handbook pg.17You can deflect incoming attacks.Prerequisites:Combat Expertise, Improved Feint, Swordplay Style, Swordplay Upset, Weapon Focus with the chosen weapon, base attack bonus +7.
Benefit:While using Swordplay Style, when you make one or more melee attacks, you can forgo a single melee attack to prepare an action to disrupt an opponent’s attack. This functions as a swashbuckler’s opportune parry and riposteACG deed, except that if your result is greater than your opponent’s, you gain a +4 shield bonus to your Armor Class against attacks made by your opponent until the start of your next turn instead of preventing the hit, and you cannot attempt to riposte. If you have the opportune parry and riposte deed, you gain this Armor Class bonus anytime you successfully parry an opponent’s attack.