at rank 4, no edges taken yet.

You twist your wrist painfully as your backstab glances awkwardly off of the wooden soldier!
Your backstab misses the wooden soldier.
The wooden soldier is in perfect health.

Resulting in:

You are affected by:
Physical effect: 'sprained wrist' modifies strength for a very short time.


I thought this might be the strongarm backstab edge leaking into the general populace or is it a change to backstab?

By design. Changed several months before thief edges came in.

Pretty sure there's something on the announcement forum about it.