Vaults Vanquisher
Posts: 428
Joined: Friday, 17th December 2010, 22:07
Butchering
-- Polearm, staff, and mace users are negatively impacted by this. They spend more turns butchering and sometimes get stuck with a butchering weapon in their hand when a baddie appears from around the corner, and have to spend a turn switching back.
-- You have an increased chance of getting a cursed butchering weapon on the early levels before you have found any scrolls of remove curse. When this happens, I normally quit. It's either that, or spend 30 turns trying to kill a rat with a cursed -1, -3 dagger.
-- I don't think it's all that unreasonable to assume that behind the scenes, the PC brought a skinning knife with him into the dungeons and can safely use it transparently, even when a cursed quarterstaff is stuck in their hands. I'm also assuming me brought toilet paper too.
-- I dont think the minigame created by requiring an edged weapon to butcher a corpse adds anything meaningful or fun to the game. I only see drawbacks introduced from it that especially affect new players negatively.
-- This also makes many players waste an inventory slot on an edged weapon. I know this isn't a huge deal, but it is inventory spam.