Whip Special Materials Question

[Revolving Door Alternate]

{ This is for PFS in case that matters. }

Simple question.
Can you make a whip using wyroot for the handle/haft to get the arcane pool point benefit?

Quote:

WYROOT

The root of the wyrwood tree has a peculiar quality. When a weapon constructed of wyroot confirms a critical hit, it absorbs some of the life force of the creature struck. The struck creature is unharmed and the wyroot weapon gains 1 life point. As a swift action, a wielder with a ki pool or an arcane pool can absorb 1 life point from the wyrwood weapon and convert it into either 1 ki point or 1 arcane pool point. Most wyroot weapons can only hold 1 life point at a time, but higher-quality wyroot does exist. The most powerful wyroot weapons can hold up to 3 life points at a time. Any unspent life points dissipate at dusk.
Wyroot can be used to construct any melee weapon made entirely of wood or a melee weapon with a wooden haft. Constructing a wyroot weapon that can hold 1 life point increases the weapon's price by 1,000 gp, constructing one that can hold up to 2 life points increases the weapon's price by 2,000 gp, and constructing one that can hold up to 3 life points increases the weapon's price by 4,000 gp.

More complex question.

If not, is there any other special material that can be used with a whip to get even a minor benefit?

[Bizbag]

The business end of a weapon needs to be made of a special material to gain its benefit; e.g. Darkwood battle axes. A whip likely can't benefit, per RAW.

Whips are made of flexible materials, like leather or rope, so maybe you can find a special material like that. Dragon skin whip, perhaps?

[FLite]

Darkleaf leather (weigth reduction)

Or get a stinging whip from faiths of balance. 5 lbs, made of braids of metallic wire, and you can use a channel to give it a bonus to trip or disarm.

PS. Wyroot is not PFS legal.

[Revolving Door Alternate]

Carpola!

Dang, I didn't notice that wyroot is not PFS legal. That is a weird one. It doesn't seem so powerful that it needs excluded. But oh well.

I don't have the Faiths of Balance book on my purchase list anytime real soon.

I suppose I will make it out of darkleaf cloth for the weight reduction if that is the only other one that will work.

I have a str of 18 so I don't really need it, but I just think the special materials make the PC more unique and alive.

[FLite]

I think it is excluded because the charge in the wyroot can be carried over from session to session. PFS in general bans anything that has to be charged up in game and carries it's charges between games. (I think staffs are one of the few exceptions. And even there it gets gnarly)

[kinevon]

FLite wrote:

I think it is excluded because the charge in the wyroot can be carried over from session to session. PFS in general bans anything that has to be charged up in game and carries it's charges between games. (I think staffs are one of the few exceptions. And even there it gets gnarly)

Actually, it was originally allowed, but I think the issue came from how it charges up, rather than being a Arcane Pool point carry-over.

The only similar ability I can think of, gunslinger grit, only replaces used grit, it doesn't give a bonus pool.

Now, a whip as a Black Blade, which gives it a slowly expanding Arcane Pool of its own, which can be taken and used by the Magus....