Curse & butchering

[Dingo]

Seems pretty stupid that you can't butcher things with only *one* hand wielding a cursed weapon. I could understand if it took a bit longer, or you ended up doing a crappier job.. but having one hand full of flail doesn't seem like it would render a person entirely incapable of getting some meat off of a big fat fish, especially if that person were practically starving

[roctavian]

Recently I killed and butchered a duck, and it took me about an hour and definitely took both hands to do. "seems like" reality-based reasoning is a bad measurement for this feature of crawl.

[Dingo]

True 'nuff, but we're talkin magical gamery here ☺

Jus sayin', if you have an ogre who is willing to eat a big wad of rotten rat meat, it's unlikely that he'd be unable to separate any flesh at all from a one-ton cyclops corpse with only one hand free. If the general consensus is that curse = no butcher is a fair penalty, then that's fine by me

[greepish]

Yeah I'd say curse = no butcher just for simplicity sake. If we went by real world logic, carnivores shouldn't even really need to butcher at all.

[Stormfox]

As many US Americans can testify as of yesterday (it being our Thanksgiving holiday, with the usual center point of the meal being a whole roasted turkey), it unquestionably takes both hands to separate edible meat from a carcass, even if you're just generating "chunks". Even if I just wanted to stick my face into the dead bird and chomp on it (like the notional ogre mentioned above), I'd want both hands free to steady it.

[greepish]

That's only if you're eating a small piece. I don't think a lion would need to steady a whole zebra So I doubt a troll would need to butcher a yaktaur.

[nicolae]

Curse = no butcher is pretty much the only harsh penalty for wearing cursed gear as it is; if anything about curses were to be changed, they would need to have more noticeable effects, not less.

[Dingo]

Much truth ITT.

Idea: tofu golem (for spriggans)