Originally Posted by
Spellweaver
IIUC, he means that orc scorchers would throw "throwing spears" instead of "orkish spears", etc.
And I don't think it's a good idea to waste new items.
Oh my. A non-player character that throws its weapon towards another character, is currently throwing a melee weapon. This suggestion is that the non-player character or spear trap rather shoots/throws a throwing-knife, throwing-spear, throwing-axe, throwing-club.
Regarding wasting a spot on the new items list. We have some of these weapons already, so we are looking at 2 new items being created: throwing-axe and throwing-spear(regular-javelin).
Also throwing weapons are underused, because of rarity perhaps. Having more generated through this suggestion, might change that. I mean what are you going to do with all the throwing-axes. They will suck as melee weapons. You could leave them on the floor, melt them, sell them or maybe throw them at hostile monsters.
The main reason I created this RFE is however to make 'milkable' melee weapons less available.
'Milking' means triggering a spear/arrow-trap so spears/arrows are generated or purposefully retreating while a non-player character shoots/throws weapons/missiles at the PC, thus having plenty weapons generated.