Level -1 yahoo + Whip ??

[Orcus Porkus]

Whip


Superior one-handedmelee weapon
Cost: 1 gp
Damage: 1d4
Proficient: +3
Range: -
Weight: 2 lb.

Although an impractical weapon in most hands, a well-placed hip strike can put one’s opponent at a serious disadvantage.

Properties:
Reach (With a reach weapon, you can attack enemies that are 2 squares away from you as well as adjacent enemies, with no attack penalty. You can still make opportunity attacks only against adjacent enemies. Likewise, you can flank only an adjacent enemy.).
Off-Hand (An off-hand weapon is light enough that you can hold it and attack effectively with it while holding a weapon in your main hand. You can’t attack with both weapons in the same turn, unless you have a power that lets you do so, but you can attack with either weapon.).

Group:
Flail (Weapons in the flail group have a flexible material, usually a length of chain, between a solid handle and the damage-dealing end of the weapon.).

I find the slave/level -1 idea intriguing. Good luck. Here is your 1d4 weapon. When you get to level 1 and slowly acquire feats and class powers, you'll put it to good use. There is even a feat called "Slave Fighting" which lets you attack from prone without penalty.
You'd need to subscribe to DDi in order to make use of it though. There is a gladiator article in Dragon your campaign would get a kick out of.

 

[Istar]

Geez, sorry for trying to answer part of your question. It's a superior one-handed +2 proficiency d4 flail with the off-hand and reach properties.

Sorry mate, bad day.

Thanks for your help.

 

[Istar]

The DM wants to play the flip side of the high stat heroe's we are used to playing.
Level 1 is a "Hero" class, but all heroes started out somewhere as nobody's, he wants to explore why and how we became level 1 heroes from nobody's.

At least we didnt have to do too much history for our characters, but we have gone deeper into personality traits to try and roleplay them more than usual.

 

[Gruns]

Umm...

So you dont know then.
So far I know its a free website with no restrictions on how much I can post, unless someone can inform me otherwise ?

If you dont like my post, you dont need to post a reply, particularly so if you have no help to offer.

I have, as stated in my post, searched the PHB and other 4e soures for "Whip" and cant find anything.
The DM is new to 4e, as are all of us, after 23 years of 1st and 2nd Edition.
We will get round to reading most, but right now I am up to all the Rogue stuff and Martial Mastery, PHB is next.

But right now, we are level -1, with no powers / skills / abilities, in the wilderness fighting nature "Like Man V Wild" with a "Whip" and I need to find out what it does ??

With your extensive reading and knowledge, do you know ?????????

Umm... Wow.
This is the type of 'arrogant prick' post that makes people not answer your myriad of questions. (I know I'm done.)
cmbarone clearly knows the asnwer, and if you read his response at all, you would see that the fact that it's a whip has nothing to do with whether or not it uses STR or DEX. As he said, it depends on the power that you use. In the hands of a rogue, this is likely going to be DEX. For a fighter, it will be STR. A paladin? Could be CHA. Again, it depends on the power, NOT the weapon.
Many people have been more than reasonable answering your questions that by all rights are answered clearly in the PHB. Your lack of effort to even bother with reading the rules is one thing. Your ungrateful attitude is too much, and isn't the way to make a good first impression here.
Later
Gruns

 

[Baumi]

Sounds like an interesting start for a campaign!

There was already enough said about the attack-attributes and the whip itself, but I just want to add that you usually don't learn the Whip by the Weapon Proficiency Feat, but with a special Multiclass Whip Feat instead. This feat not only gives you the proficiency but also a special attack that make the weapon interesting and opens up a few other Whip-Feats.

So if you don't have the Dragon than you should buff the Whip a bit or it would be a weak weapon since it is build for the special Feats.