Bare Handed Hunting

Knife

A common request from players is to be able to go hunting bare handed. This may be because suicide is a strategy (see my earlier post on Seasons). Or it may be a more visceral thing. Either way, it might be a nice addition to the game.

I came back to it while thinking about the knife, a short lived piece of equipment from an earlier hunting system. As a person living in the 22nd century, I never go anywhere without my pocket knife, why would a primitive hunter?

Mechanically, the knife is a piece of equipment that players don't have to buy. It doesn't take up one of the hunter's 3 equipment slots, and it's not even a card, it's embedded in the graphics of the board. Using the knife to hunt is always an option.