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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 1592524" data-attributes="member: 63">Make one change to the whip, and it's perfectly balanced -- let it hurt things with armor.Shuriken, little pieces of metal maybe 3 or 4 inches long, can be flung 50 ft. and still hurt a man in full plate.A whip, which, by accounts I've read and heard, can rip flesh from the hide of a cow, ought to be able to hurt someone in full plate when they're 15 ft. away.  Heck, it might not even be cutting.  It might involve wrapping the whip around the victim's wrist and yanking, nearly dislocating their shoulder, or just bludgeoning the victim on his forehead, stunning him.But make this one change, and the whip is fine.  Put a +5 flaming, shocking, frost, wounding whip in the hands of a 30 Str, 20th level fighter with Great Cleave or Whirlwind Attack, and while it won't be a great weapon for killing a dragon, it's phenomenal for taking down hordes of minions.  And, oh look, it's a one-handed weapon, which means you can Power Attack with it.I'm working on a book all about whips.  It's EN Arsenal: Whips, to be published some time later this summer by E.N. Publishing.  It'll be second or third in the series, which will start off with EN Arsenal: Spiked Chains, to be released in early July.</blockquote>