Purge pointy priestly penalty

The priestly penalty doesn't necessarily make sense any more.  In Vanilla (and 
D&D), priests are inherently better in combat than mages.  In Sangband, this 
isn't true, but we retain the penalty.  In S, we make priests blunt 
"specialists".

Priests are penalized in two ways:
1) Suffers skill reduction when using pointy weapons (but better with blunt 
weapons)
2) Increased spell fail when using non-blessed pointy weapons (I think)
3) Blunt weapons aren't as good as pointy weapons (at least by end-game)

As a result, priests almost never use pointed weapons, even when they are 
blessed. Perhaps we should allow priests to use pointed weapons with their 
clubbing skill if the weapon is blessed?

If we eliminate the priests pointy penalty, we might repurpose the blessed flag.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by jmidd...@gmail.com on 11 Nov 2010 at 11:47

beoran / skills-angband

Purge pointy priestly penalty #97