Stabbing Skill and Claws / Blade Hands

[XuaXua]

So... Stabbing is the "do damage on surprise" skill, right?

It works well with Short Blades, OK with Long Blades but doesn't work as great with other attacks.

Are Claws and/or Blade Hands given any consideration?
Should they be given consideration (I'm of the opinion, yes)?

[ebarrett]

stabbing works well with short blades because you use your advanced knowledge of weak vital spots to first swiftly lodge your dagger into some important, very specific body part and then do a sharp, precise move that instantly kills the target before it has any chance to even notice what the hell is going on. bit hard to be this efficient and subtle with enormous monstrous claws or huge and unwieldy scythe-like hands or whatever.

I mean, really, some people in here act like they never stabbed someone irl

[XuaXua]

or huge and unwieldy scythe-like hands or whatever.

And yet Long Blades gets a bonus, right?

[BlackSheep]

All attacks get a bonus. Long Blades get a slightly bigger bonus than Polearms, yes, but nothing resembling the Short Blades bonus. The general consensus is that if you're stabbing, you're using short blades.

[rebthor]

I mean, really, some people in here act like they never stabbed someone irl

This needs to be in Henzell!

[sardonica]

So... Stabbing is the "do damage on surprise" skill, right?

It works well with Short Blades, OK with Long Blades but doesn't work as great with other attacks.

Are Claws and/or Blade Hands given any consideration?
Should they be given consideration (I'm of the opinion, yes)?

I'm of the opinion, Short Blades need a reason to be in the game