What enchantment should I get for a whip

[Crothian]

Brilliant Energy Whip and the ability to cast True Strike!!!!!!!!

Hit someone through closed doors and through walls, 50% miss chance because of their concealment. BUT, IF you cast True Strike before you attack then the 50% chance is negated.

ASSUMING of course you already know the exact location of your foe.

That is just nasty. I think I have a new villian for my guys.

 

[Arcanus]

That is just nasty. I think I have a new villian for my guys.

Wouldn't it be really cool if you had a ring of x-ray vision???

 

[Crothian]

Wouldn't it be really cool if you had a ring of x-ray vision???

I'm slowly biulding my villian. Got Lasher levels piled on a rogue/fighter. Sneak attack is a must since he's attacking from the other side of a wall.

i think after this, by cable modem will be destroyed by my players.

 

[kreynolds]

I'm slowly biulding my villian. Got Lasher levels piled on a rogue/fighter. Sneak attack is a must since he's attacking from the other side of a wall.

i think after this, by cable modem will be destroyed by my players.

I assume you are talking about the ring of x-ray vision to allow a sneak attack through a wall and not true strike.

 

[Omegium]

Re: Re: What enchantment should I get for a whip

Use a +4 mighty barbed whip.

Where exactly comes the barbed whip from?

 

[Kae'Yoss]

Re: Re: What enchantment should I get for a whip

Don't use a whip. Use a +4 mighty barbed whip. Those are nasty. Slap on vorpal or brilliant energy (though I wouldn't use the vorpal in the DMG, so if you oject to house rules, go with brilliant energy) and go to town!

Where can I find the alternative? What does it do?

 

[kreynolds]

Re: Re: Re: What enchantment should I get for a whip

Where can I find the alternative? What does it do?

Where exactly comes the barbed whip from?

Sorry. I meant whip dagger. If you are interested in the alternate Vorpal, check out my version right here.

 

[Bobbystopholes]

I'm seeing a lot of Melee enchantments mentioned here. I didn't think you could get that for a Whip?

My personal enchantment choice to start off with is Sure Striking. DR? Who cares! Then you can tack on the burst enhancements... just don't get sundered! Gack!

 

[Kae'Yoss]

That Vorpal variant sounds good. I'm wondering whether 4X are enough to justify a +5 equivalent, though. For that amount, you could make it a flaming, frost, shock, corrosive, screaming sword, after all, with +5d6 elemental damage all the time, not just on a crit (although enemies could well be immune to one or several elements).

And if we're already speaking about Vorpal weapons: in AD&D 2e, there were two enchantments wich made the weapon cut off things at a crit: one that cut off any random limb, and one that cut off the head. Does anybody know how the other one was called?

 

[kreynolds]

That Vorpal variant sounds good. I'm wondering whether 4X are enough to justify a +5 equivalent, though. For that amount, you could make it a flaming, frost, shock, corrosive, screaming sword, after all, with +5d6 elemental damage all the time, not just on a crit (although enemies could well be immune to one or several elements).

And if we're already speaking about Vorpal weapons: in AD&D 2e, there were two enchantments wich made the weapon cut off things at a crit: one that cut off any random limb, and one that cut off the head. Does anybody know how the other one was called?

It was a sword of sharpness. But, as far as your concern as to whether or not my group's version of vorpal is worth the +5 enhancement, yes it is. Remember, in our group's version, all the damage is force damage. Also, the vorpal damage is determined by your weapon, so a longsword will deal 4d8 vorpal and a greatsword will deal 8d6 vorpal. It uses the base weapon damage to determine the vorpal damage. The balance is in the fact that the better the damage a weapon can deal, the smaller the crit range.

Also, in my group, you can't stack energy enhancements. I don't care what Monte says. Allowing the stacking of energy enhancements breaks the burst enhancements.