Disarming With A Whip

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Im about to run a campain that will have a lasher in it and id like to get some things strait.

1. In the ph is says if you disarm with a light weapon you get a minus for disarms but with a whip it says you get a plus. Do these stack how and how do i fidgure out what my mod is?

2. When you disarm someone the weapon falls in there square. With a whip can you get the weapon to come to you?

thats basicly it. call me a newb if you want i just want to do this right

Thanks for your help
-Matt​

 

[Piratecat]

Matt, welcome. Please don't use the term "gay" as an insult here - that usage isn't what we want to see. Anyways, no one is going to be rude because you're asking a question. That's what this place exists for!

I have moved your question into the rules forum, incidentally, to keep things organized.

 

[Camarath]

1. In the ph is says if you disarm with a light weapon you get a minus for disarms but with a whip it says you get a plus. Do these stack how and how do i fidgure out what my mod is?

The Whip is a one-handed weapon so it does not suffer the penalty for being a light weapon in a disarm attempt. The Whip also grants you +2 bonus on opposed attack rolls made to disarm an opponent (including the roll to keep from being disarmed if the attack fails). This bonus you add to your opposed attack roll (plus your normal bonuses and +4 if you have Improved Disarm).

2. When you disarm someone the weapon falls in there square. With a whip can you get the weapon to come to you?

The base rules do not allow you to use a Whip to move the disarmed weapon towards. The Lasher prestige class for Sword and Fist might give that ability but I can't remember if it does.

 

[reanjr]

1. In the ph is says if you disarm with a light weapon you get a minus for disarms but with a whip it says you get a plus. Do these stack how and how do i fidgure out what my mod is?

They WOULD stack if the whip were a light weapon. But it is not. If the whip were a light weapon, receiving a +2 to disarm, it would have an overall -2 to disarm (-4 from being light, +2 for being a whip). But as Camarath said, whips are one-handed. They have an +2 to disarm.

 

[dcollins]

Matt, welcome. Please don't use the term "gay" as an insult here...

Actually, some of us would also prefer not to see the word "raped" thrown around in here.

 

[Hypersmurf]

They WOULD stack if the whip were a light weapon. But it is not. If the whip were a light weapon, receiving a +2 to disarm, it would have an overall -2 to disarm (-4 from being light, +2 for being a whip). But as Camarath said, whips are one-handed. They have an +2 to disarm.

Remember, if he's using Sword and Fist, he may be playing 3E.

In 3E, a whip was a Small weapon - Light for a Medium creature.

-Hyp.

 

[reanjr]

Remember, if he's using Sword and Fist, he may be playing 3E.

In 3E, a whip was a Small weapon - Light for a Medium creature.

-Hyp.

The term light weapon wasn't used in 3.0 was it? Oh, well.

[edit] Yes, I realize I am an idiot. Of course there was a light weapon in 3.0.

[edit #2] I really wish they hadn't muttled the game with 3.5

 

[Piratecat]

Actually, some of us would also prefer not to see the word "raped" thrown around in here.

Good point. That post has been removed, only partially because I fixed the title when I moved the thread.

[Meta reminder] Remember, folks, that you can edit your own titles by editing the first post of the thread.

 

[dcollins]

Thanks.

 

[Hypersmurf]

The term light weapon wasn't used in 3.0 was it?

While the term light weapon was used in 3E, it wasn't referenced in the Disarm rules... so thinking about it, he's probably playing 3.5 after all.

-Hyp.