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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 2389005" data-attributes="member: 63">Interestingly, if we're rules-lawyering here, the rules for whips only prohibit them from hurting creatures with armor or natural armor. So if you have a steel door, a high strength, and are power attacking with a whip, you can cut through that door. You can also sunder shields made from iron or dragonscales, and you can sunder weapons made of adamantine, but that whip just can't manage to hurt a dude wearing full plate armor.By the way, do you realize you can use a whip two-handed?  A 20th level barbarian with Weapon Focus,  a +5 whip, and a 36 Strength while raging could power attack for full, have a +19 attack bonus, and deal 1d3+64 points of nonlethal damage with a whip. He could take a -4 penalty to his attack to make that lethal damage. As a full-round action that's 4 attacks, enough to cut through 7 inches of steel.But he just can't hurt a halfling in padded armor.So the moral of the story is, if you're going to be a whip-wielder, focus on sundering. That makes sense.</blockquote>