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I am playing a Blade right now. I am level 23 meaning I maxed out (only have SoA) and I am leaving the Underdark right now after killing Adalon (my chaotic nature incited me to watch what the demon would do with her eggs and she was angry with me because of this).
Immoral, you say you have the Elven Chain Mail and the Ring of protections? How are you able to combine them, this should not be possible unless you have a mod installed!
I recommend you to go for the Ring of Gaxx. Its easy enough with the righ tactics (e.g. polymorph into a jelly while the lich wastes the spells on you and use the Wand of Summoning or the Wand of Frost (?) to protect yourself while in this form against the physical attacts of possible creatures the Lich may summon. And of course don't forget Daystar and the Mace of Disruption if you already have it. As for the Demi-Lich Kangaxx ... enough have been already written how to destroy him easily).
In your weapons collection I miss the D'akkon Zerth Blade (from the bonus merchants). This weapon has been made for a bard (or F/M). I wear it always in the offhand mainly for the extra spell slots.
The right balance between melee and magic is the key for a Blade. In my opinion the extra spells are more important than an extra attack so I go with that blade instead of Kundane.
As a consecuence of it I don't see the MMM + offhand weapon as cheese - sorry for that but I am not going to lose my spell slots just because the game engine works that way.
Also I prefer the Belt of Intertial Barrier instead of a strength improving belt, because of its reduction of magical damage but I could be wrong with this.
I am missing a +5 weapon in your inventory. MMM can do it, but it is useful to have such a weapon in case the mage casts some protections. An finally also a weapon that does elemental damage and goes thru stoneskin (like flail of ages) is very useful.
Later on when you got into the Asylum don't forget to get the Ring of Free Action which is vital. Unfortunately, unless you do some tricks equipping and unequipping in the right order, that will make your boots useless. Cloak of Reflection is very useful. Combine it with a Wand of Electricity (?) and see how a mage's Spell Turning goes done very cheaply.
As for dragons, I killed Adalon mainly using Melf's Acid Arrows and Skull Traps. For a high level character like a bard they do maximum damage. Basically I casted a Mirror Image from a scroll which casted a Simulacrum from a Scroll. I had also some skeletons to distract the dragon. Stripped of Adalon's Spell Turning with the trick described above and then shot with the Project Image and Simulacrum a double Melf from the Secuencer. Kept on shooting Melf's upon it. Then you only need to wait a bit of speed it up with skull traps. The acid damage alone is immense! (Of course you will need to lower before its magic resistance).
It was not an easy fight though, but you can play a Blade absolutely without any cheese. I don't attack creatures with blue circles, don't cloudkill from distance (unless they are busy fighting my summons and hence there is a real reason to stay in this area), etc., and play at max. difficulty.
Playing a Blade is quite a lot of fun since you need to exploit any possibility if you want to succeed. It is not as traight forwared as with a F. I only complain of the small inventory space, and picking it from the Bag of Holding is just a bit too tedious.
As for fighting a group, Web is good choice. Someone should fail it's safe and get webbed. Greater Malison also helps. And meanwhile you don't get webbed because you have the Ring of Free Action - that helps also to fight while in defensive spin. An army of (hasted) Skeleton Warriors also helps and because of their high MR they don't get webbed. Summon a Djinni from a bottle and have him cast Stinking Cloud to help disable your enemies (in that case stay safaly away and use spells or wands)
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