The whip of warning and vicious whip are both formally 'Weapon of warning' and 'Vicious weapon,' so that's how you find them when searching the list of magic items. DDB then made individual weapons of warning, so that you could put a whip or a dagger or a shortsword on your character sheet and have both the math for the weapon and the benefits of the item, together. Similarly, if you search the magic items for '+1' you'll find 'Weapon, +1' and that's the official entry from which they've made a Whip +1.
Magic Items listing = entries as they're listed in the books
Manage Inventory listing = items extrapolated from those listings to be applied as single items on your character sheet
In the inventory section, click on the whip so that you see the details in the sidebar. Click on 'customize.' In the section that appears, is the box for 'display as attack' checked? It should be.
When I search for "whip" in the Magic Item list, it only shows me Dyrn's Tenacle Whip and Mastix, Whip of Erebos.
When I search for "whip" in the Equipment list, it only shows me the whip from the Basic Rules.
When I search for "whip" in Manage Inventory on my character sheet, I see
Why the discrepancy? Shouldn't everything but the regular Whip show up in the Magic Items list?
The whip of warning and vicious whip are both formally 'Weapon of warning' and 'Vicious weapon,' so that's how you find them when searching the list of magic items. DDB then made individual weapons of warning, so that you could put a whip or a dagger or a shortsword on your character sheet and have both the math for the weapon and the benefits of the item, together. Similarly, if you search the magic items for '+1' you'll find 'Weapon, +1' and that's the official entry from which they've made a Whip +1.
Magic Items listing = entries as they're listed in the books
Manage Inventory listing = items extrapolated from those listings to be applied as single items on your character sheet
Birgit | Shifter | Sorcerer | Dragonlords
Shayone | Hobgoblin | Sorcerer | Netherdeep
If instead of searching for "whip", you add Whip to the Weapon Types field, you'll get a whole bunch of results.
Ok, thanks folks! Still seems to be harder than it should.
I add and equip Whip to my inventory but it doesnt show up in my attack options under "actions"
In the inventory section, click on the whip so that you see the details in the sidebar. Click on 'customize.' In the section that appears, is the box for 'display as attack' checked? It should be.
Birgit | Shifter | Sorcerer | Dragonlords
Shayone | Hobgoblin | Sorcerer | Netherdeep