Castlevania D&D

[IcyCool]

I think there was a whip back in the 3.0 ranger/druids book that had glass or metal braided into the whip that did slashing damage.

That would be the Nagaika. It was in Masters of the Wild

 

[Anubis]

Yeah, I was thinking more along the lines of the original few Castlevania games, not the more recent ones. Like the ones on NES and SNES.

 

[Arnwyn]

The problem is that, in D&D, whips do nonlethal damage and are not suitable as weapons; quite a problem given that the famous whip is the Belmont weapon-of-choice.

How would one go about bringing a Belmont and that famous whip into a D&D campaign? I can't find anything resembling the Belmonts' famous whip, so I'm at a loss as to how this could be pulled off.

As others have noted:

- Whip-dagger (from Sword & Fist)
- Spiked chain
- Whip (or whip-dagger) with flame quality (and/or flaming burst)
- Lasher PrC (from Sword & Fist)

Lots of choices!

 

[Satori]

I'd be tempted to use modified bless rules.

The whip does subdual damage to everything BUT undead and other supernatural baddies, due to some type of bless/silver lacing/etc...

Still, I think it'd be funny to see a low level whip user try and trip a vampire...then get tossed on his arse and beaten unconscious with his own whip.

Then again, I'm wierd.

 

[RangerWickett]

You might want to take a look at E.N. Arsenal - Whips.