You can keep your enemies at bay with flourishes of your whip. You gain the following benefits:

• Increase your Dexterity score by 1, to a maximum of 20. 
• When you take the Attack action and attack with only a whip, you can use a bonus action to make a second melee attack. 
• While you are wielding a whip, other creatures provoke an opportunity attack from you when they enter your reach.