Q36: There is a whip somewhere that does lethal damage and works on armored critters. Does anybody know where? I thought it was in Drow of the Underdark, but I am not finding it there. Alternatively, are there any other good ways to get 15' of continuous melee reach before adding Expansion and being stretched on the rack for a Willing Deformity?
Aberrant Blood/Aberrant Reach
Wiilling Deformity/Deformity- Tall
Fiendish Graft: Long Arm
This gives you a melee reach of 20 ft, pre size increase to large. (assuming you are medium sized)
Just the two feat chains will net you +10 ft of reach, which is amusing when used on a psicrystal, for instance.
The Whip Dagger, from 3.0 will net you 15 ft reach with lethal, as will a couple of specific magic items which are whips (The Water Elemental whip from Eberron is the one off the top of my head) but without Lasher (the 3.0 prestige class) you can't threaten with the whip. This is, obviously, sometimes a problem. I'd probably use the Drow Scorpion Chain or Kusari Gama instead, since they're basically metal whips (albeit only with 10 ft of reach) all Castlevania style, and they threaten as well as a spiked chain. Combine Kusari Gama with the Aberrant and Deformity feats, and you threaten 0-20 feet at medium size, can do lethal damage, and such. It's ... five feats to manage this, of course. But reasonably impressive, all the same.
