Just a question I discovered the other day during role-playing.
If you can do a trip attack with a whip,
and a scourge is a bladed, multi-tailed whip,
...can you trip with a scourge?
My husband and I made it legal in our homebrewed world. What do you guys think?
PS. Nothing in the description of a scourge in the Complete Warrior talks about trip attemtps. Perhaps in the Errata?
Part of how a whip is used for tripping is that it winds around the legs because of its length. A scourge is much shorter and doesn't have reach. which isn't to say that you can't trip with a scourge. But it wouldn't necessarily be as easy as with a whip.
RAW, no. But it seems reasonable, especially since you can do all that with a light or heavy flail without spending an exotic weapon proficiency feat on it.
RAW, no. But it seems reasonable, especially since you can do all that with a light or heavy flail without spending an exotic weapon proficiency feat on it.
You see, that's more or less what I was thinking.
Part of how a whip is used for tripping is that it winds around the legs because of its length. A scourge is much shorter and doesn't have reach. which isn't to say that you can't trip with a scourge. But it wouldn't necessarily be as easy as with a whip.
The only arguement I have for that, is.. I believe, that a whip "can" have reach, and that a scourge is intended for "square-to-square" melee. (close quarters melee).
P.S. - the PHB lists the whip as having a 15ft reach.