@Wyrmspawn @stsword the way the game is written (and it is written very well) makes it seem like some stats aren’t used a lot, when actually they are. If you try playing the game with a completely different skill set it changes a lot!
Great game, indeed!
Feels strangely realistic, following on your decisions and presenting believable outcomes.
Can’t wait for the next Chapter('s).
@AllenGies the eyepatch might be a thing you can buy from the saddler after an incident when your glass eye falls off in some kind of accident.
Glass eyes weren’t very common in that era, but the centers of artificial eye making was Paris and also Germany, so perhaps that could be used in converstaions with your romances. The most common use for glass eyes was (and still is) in taxidermy, so perhaps you could get help from the tannery with that. Glass eyes are also fragile and uncomfotable.
Those are just a few ideas with glass eyes/eyepatch. Hope I was helpful.
Arrgh, matey just tryin’ to help me ol’ comrade make his story all real like. Swab the deck you salty dog. :ar!
Well then I guess I never had enough brawl to do anything, because I never played the game where it even gave me the option of throwing a punch.
Heck even when I threatened the beat the living snot out of the tanner I didn’t get to follow through.
Wyrmspawn- Well, killing characters usually gives a bit of Legend and/or Notoriety. Balanced against that, the three companions all give aid during chapters and the occasional stat boost. Minor characters like Frank Spears can sometimes assist as well. Killing those such as Miss MacMurphy can have an adverse affect to certain relations down the line.
Tumbleweed Jack is a bit more complicated. He appears later to fill in the blanks with certain things but might also rise again as a foe toward the end. The same is true for any companion that gets pissed off at you; assuming you allow them to leave to plot your demise.
All in all, there are trade offs to be made. Fighting everyone you meet will certainly cement your place in history, but it will also put your back against the wall later on. Try fighting Steele with all three companions and then without them to see a bit of the difference.
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spyfox259- Glass eye? I… uh, don’t recall writing in a glass eye per se. I think Preston was using a rhetorical device there when talking about one-eyed men in the kingdom of the blind. Still, I think if you chose that route he’ll offer you a gift at the end of Chapter 6. That goes the same for the other replies used to accept his offer. (One is something about a pillow. I’ll have to check my notes.)
stsword- Brawl has its moments, but this is a western and the pistol gets used a lot. The same holds true for the rifle and sharpshooting. Note, sometimes brawl is used defensively to avoid damage and thus doesn’t seem to do much. Also, fists don’t run out of ammo.
If you have any suggestions for fist-fights you’d like to see, I’m open to suggestions.
Well, off the top of my head parts where I could see it coming in story wise:
Getting to beat up the tanner like we threaten too. Locking him up in jail won’t stop him, costing him money won’t stop him, maybe beating the stuffing out of him will.
I know that’s a bit harsh, but honestly I wouldn’t be surprised if the Butcher doesn’t out and out rip his head off if you can’t get him to shut his yap, so the lesser of two evils as it were. Anyone going for an evil SOB probably wouldn’t appreciate his lack of respect for the law.
Since we already get the option to sneak up around Tumbleweed Jack, sneaking up on him and giving him a pistol whipping him seems like an idea.
Fighting the bear. Sure shooting a bear in the eye is impressive, but wrestling a bear to submission should be worth a lot of legend.
I presume we fight the Indian Snake Guy hand to hand, but the only time I had that option I was going for more for charming peacemaker type so I didn't try it. Going into the valley dragging his senseless body is one thing, shooting him another after all.
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“Anyone going for an evil SOB probably wouldn’t appreciate his lack of respect for the law.” HAHAHAHAHA!! Yes, because most evil SOBs have an intense respect for the law… 
Oh, and you actually can beat up Harry, at least to force your way into a slice of the tannery business. You can also use brawling to engage in a knife fight with the bear, though I think that only ends up in its dying if you have a companion with you to take a pot shot while you have it distracted. And you can totally wrestle Hungry Snake as well.
It should be noted that brawling needs to be pretty high to actually be effective, so I’m guessing that’s why it hasn’t looked very effective to you.
Yeah, I totally decimated Marshall steele with brawling. Laid him out twice in a row, real awesome. Brawling’s good stat to have.
You decimated him? So, is that like taking off an arm? I would guess that’s about 1/10… (Sorry, I’ve always been picky about the use of that word. Just frustrated that it got redefined to mean something that’s already covered by about 20 other words… )
stsword- I like the idea of pistol whipping Tumbleweed. I’ll make a note to add something in. I’m not sure that beating Winthrop (the Tanner) will do all that much to avert his dislike for the Jeff Donner (The butcher). As written, Winthrop is the kind of guy that would take a beating just to make a point. An immovable object as it were so that you have to pursue the quest in another way.
Still, it is something for me to consider because I get the feeling I can improve that scene in some way.
Wrestling a bear into submission… Now that just rings with promise. 
Timaeus, when you are the law, disrespect for the law is disrespect for you, so yes I don’t imagine an evil SOB marshall would be amused. After all, if the marshall decided he didn’t care he wouldn’t have gone in there to confront him about it, now would he?
As for bear wrestling, I read about some hockey mom holding her own against a bear long enough for a neighbor to get a gun and shoot it. Besides, in the legend it could grow into the telling until the Marshall drops the bear with a punch to the face.
@AllenGies when choosing how to spend our spare time (fix office, build home, practise with guns etc.) could we have some extra options added in for other stats, that are a bit harder to increase without spending a lot of money. For example, Explosives, Legal Knowledge, Survival, Brawling.
Also, I had never met Yiska- I massacred everyone at Red Ribbon, but when getting evidence against Steele I could talk to him, and in chapter 6 it was as if my character knew him… Then he stabbed me in the back after another attempted mass-killing!
I would really like to play as a Native American.
I can never get a high persuasion or intimidation stat, so I would also go have A mixture of fighting and gun shooting.
How the heck do you people even get the option to go on these mass killing sprees? I only remember getting the option to kill single people while they’re alone…