If you break a barrel around someone's house or in their shop they get mad at you and won't give you quests or do business with you for a bit. That always bothered me in Zelda.
What if breaking a shop's pottery was a Hylian custom, started a long time ago when the potters guild was going through a rough spell and needed to drum up business? Would have been funny if they leaned into that. "Don't forget to break our pots on the way out! Have a nice day!"
Dragon Quest pretty much requires you to break or steal anything that’s not nailed down, and I have to construct a persona of a flawed hero who never learned the difference between right and wrong, just so I can sit with myself as I raid the cabinets in the orphanage.
ooooor you could implement the chicken storm / bovine defense force model. I.e. either a horde of very aggressive exploding barrels or an extremely powerful super-barrel.
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Like, "Oh yeah, that's just Link. He'll break your pots and take your rupees and arrows, but it's cool because one day he'll save Hyrule."
The hero that legend foretold. Link, Breaker of Pots.
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in reply to Ron Gilbert #FuckTrump • • •sorry ? I've seen Link breaking people's pot and opening their chests for decades and NPCs have always behaved as if it did not matter.
What Zelda have you been playing?