Hey there! The idea was to have a somewhat mystical flavor without making it too punishing to use. Adding mana costs felt like it would make it awful. The base damage is fairly average (still better than shortbows, lol) but Tiger gets a nice form skill that really helps it spread Bleed everywhere, and traits to help it heal allies with every attack, so you deal decent scaling damage with solid utility for a weapon.
Thanks for the reply man, you made a really nice game. It's true, the ability to do damage while healing yourself and allies is pretty useful, plus the bleeding. Anyway, do you plan to write unique conversations if the MC is a martial artist and talks to Maya and other npc's who use martial arts themselves?
Glad you're enjoying it!
There will be some dialog swaps, but entirely unique conversations for something a small % of players can see would detract from doing conversations most/all players can see, so I wouldn't expect a ton of them.
Maya and Ashley will definitely get some degree of content if you are a martial artist as well, though. I love writing fights and sparring matches, like Sam/Metatron, are a good opportunity.