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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LostSoul" data-source="post: 4487354" data-attributes="member: 386">That's cool.  I would have no problem with the PCs trying to disarm every round.  I even built this guy so that disarming him (or slashing his whip) would work.  That's why he has the short sword.As far as slashing his whip, this is how I would handle it.1. Readied action: "I ready an action to slash his whip in two", which triggers when the slaver hits, I guess, so that it's taut and can be slashed.2. If I describe the whip as being taut ("His whip wraps around your leg and slows you down"), then you can just cut it without needing the readied action.3. Just a regular attack to slice it in two, though it's harder to do and I'd give a -2 to the attack roll.  If the player describes something cool - "After he lashes out at me, I wrap the whip around my now-free hand and draw a dagger with the other, cutting the whip in two" - I'd erase the -2 penalty.On any successful hit, the whip is cut and can't be used.  You'd need a sharp weapon, of course, not just any weapon.  A mace wouldn't do it.That brings up another point about how I look at description and how it's important to me.  If you describe "wrapping the whip around my PC's arm" I think I'd let you Pull him 1 square with a Str vs. Fort attack as just a move action.  You can't normally pull a guy, especially one who's at range, but the fictional situation and how things are described makes this move make sense, makes it possible, so it should be allowed.(I think a move action's okay because it's similar to shifting next to him, but slightly better so you have to make the attack.  And on a failure he might pull you or knock you prone.)</blockquote>

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