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Short blade changes hurt short sword stabber starts
Recently we got a couple changes to short blades, good by themselves, no complaints here. https://github.com/crawl/crawl/commit/e8845773e3cb1a3035fb3f1baf4b27ade2b16f9c This one reduced non-dagger SB base damage by one.
This is really painful on trying to stab with a rapier/short sword early game, stuff survives that would not have before. Even on OpDe, with good stealth investment and awesome stealth aptitude! Again, not a problem in general since daggers exist.
However, we have some starts that do only offer a short sword, delver in particular, and there the stabbing penalty compared to a dagger really hurts. Its an awesome stabbing background but it needs to be able to get some stabs! D:5 doesn't generate that many daggers, so can't just pick up one from the ground.
So I propose to change delver short sword start to a vorpal dagger. Damage output in a fight will be roughly similar, stabbing much better, and we will have gained a very interesting stabber background.
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- petercordia