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====Class Features====

All of the following are class features of the Whipsinger.

'''{{Anchor|Spellcasting}}:''' At each level, you gain new spells per day, an increase in caster level, and spells known as if you had also gained a level in the bard class. You do not, however, gain any other benefit a character of that class would have gained such as bonuses to bardic music and bardic knowledge.

'''{{Anchor|Threatening Reach}} ([[Ex]]):''' You can now threaten areas with a whip.

When you gain this ability at 1st level, you can threaten 5 feet around you with a whip. At 2nd level, you can threaten 10 feet around you with a whip and at 3rd level you can threaten your full reach with a whip.

'''{{Anchor|Whipsinger Trick}}:''' At each whipsinger level you can choose a new trick that you can perform with a whip.

''{{Anchor|Bonus Feat}}:'' You gain one of the following feats that you meet the prerequisites for: [[SRD:Combat Expertise|Combat Expertise]], [[SRD:Combat Reflexes|Combat Reflexes]], [[SRD:Improved Critical|Improved Critical]] (whip), [[SRD:Improved Disarm|Improved Disarm]], [[SRD:Improved Trip|Improved Trip]], [[SRD:Quick Draw|Quick Draw]]

''{{Anchor|Improved Whip Song}} ([[Su]]):'' The gestures of your whip allow you to cast spells in silenced areas. You can attempt to cast a spell while affected by magical silence. Make a [[SRD:Will|Will]] save against the spell using your ranks in [[SRD:Perform|perform]] (dance) as your base saving throw (even if the spell normally does not allow a saving throw). If you succeed, you are able to cast a spell, otherwise, the spell is lost.

''{{Anchor|Lightning Fast}} ([[Su]]):'' Your whip seems to strike your opponents at blindingly fast speeds. Any whip you wield is treated as if it has the ''[[SRD:Shock|Shock]]'' property.

''{{Anchor|Loud Crack}} ([[Su]]):'' When your whip snaps against an opponent, it makes a deafening sound. Any whip you wield is treated as if it has the ''[[SRD:Thundering|Thundering]]'' property.

''{{Anchor|Never Leave Home Without It}} ([[Ex]]):'' You are a master of making mundane tasks so much more exciting with the inclusion of a whip. You now have such precision with your whip that you can use it to pick up items and have the item moved to you as a move action or use it to make [[SRD:Sleight of Hand|Sleight of Hand]] checks to pickpocket at the whip's range.

''{{Anchor|Hurting to Heal}} ([[Su]]):'' A helpful whip on the back of your ally helps sooth his wounds. You can channel [[SRD:Healing Subschool|healing]] spells through your whip, allowing you to use the whip's reach in place of touch range for healing spells.

''{{Anchor|Painful Lashes}} ([[Ex]]):'' Your whip deals lethal blows. You can choose to deal lethal damage with a whip. For each odd whipsinger level you have gained (1st, 3rd, and 5th), increase the damage you deal with whips as if you were one size category larger.

''{{Anchor|Whip Acrobatics}} ([[Ex]]):'' You can use your whip to aid you in acrobatic stunts. You can add 2 + the enhancement bonus of your whip to any skill check in which you use your whip as part of the action. The DM must rule what is an appropriate usage of a whip as part of a skill check.

For example: Vincent, holding a ''+1 whip'', attempts to use his whip to latch onto a pillar and swing around the pillar to the top of a dragon's back. The DM has ruled that this is a [[SRD:Jump|jump]] check DC 25. Vincent can add +3 to his his jump check because he is using his whip as part of the action.

''{{Anchor|Whip Dance}} ([[Ex]]):'' With a whirl surrounding you, your whip seems like a fluid part of you: a cascade of color, sound, and motion. You may make an extra attack with your whip during a full attack action, but each attack you make takes a -2 penalty.

'''{{Anchor|Whip Song}} ([[Su]]):''' You can use the cracks and whirs of your whirling whip to create a beat an melody. You can use a [[SRD:Perform|perform]] (dance) for your bardic music abilities and use the sounds of your whip as a verbal component and the motions of the whip as a somatic component for spells.

'''{{Anchor|Close Quarters Whipping}} ([[Ex]]):''' You no longer provoke an attack of opportunity when you attack an adjacent foe with a whip. 

'''{{Anchor|Long Reach}} ([[Ex]]):''' You can extend your reach with a whip. Five times per day as an immediate action, you may treat your reach with a whip as if it were 5 ft. longer. This effect lasts for 1 round.
Article Balance	High +
Author	Aarnott +
Identifier	3.5e Prestige Class +
Length	5 +
Minimum Level	5 +
Rating	Undiscussed +
Summary	Bards that choose to specialize with a whip are able to master the flowing grace of the weapon, turning it into a whirling dance. +
Title	Whipsinger +