Should Talons 3 be able to butcher?

[dolphin]

Currently it doesn't. Just looking for feedback to know if I should post it to Mantis or the wiki or not.

[galehar]

Why? It's not really needed since everybody has a knife. Kenku can butcher with beak and talon but that's just for the bird flavour.

[Kate]

The Kenku butchery check just looks to see if you have both talons and a beak, I think, so if other races mutated both they could butcher with them too.

[dolphin]

Demonspawn with talons 3 can't butcher. I found out when I figured they could, and went ahead and cursed my mace, assuming I could still get chunks . . .

[mumra]

Demonspawn with talons 3 can't butcher. I found out when I figured they could, and went ahead and cursed my mace, assuming I could still get chunks . . .

Separate issue; you can't butcher with a cursed weapon, because you can't free up your hands, whether that's to use a knife or talons. Animate Skeleton is a good option in that situation, as is Ice Form.

[dolphin]

Talons are on your feet though. Shouldn't be a problem, unless you are an octopode, and then things just get complicated.

[XuaXua]

Talons are on your feet though. Shouldn't be a problem, unless you are an octopode, and then things just get complicated.

I wouldn't trust a slice of blowfish from someone who cut it using only their toenails.

[mumra]

Talons are on your feet though. Shouldn't be a problem, unless you are an octopode, and then things just get complicated.

True (although the idea of an Octopode with talons is terrifying!) - but I think talons alone shouldn't be enough if you think about it, you also need some leverage, hence the Kenku requirement of a beak also.

[TwilightPhoenix]

I wouldn't trust a slice of blowfish from someone who cut it using only their toenails.

Would you trust it from someone butchering a corpse with their Fangs 3 mutation?

[The Mantis]

You can scissor most things open by spearing them and cutting them with an edge.