There's a quirk with hurling that can at times be quite alarming, and potentially result in the loss of a weapon. If I'm a melee weapon user, and I take a stab at a leaf or a table or some other inanimate object, I "stab at it mercilessly" or whatever that message is; no harm done to you or the leaf or table. On the other hand, if I hurl a weapon at it, I end up with my weapon laying on the ground. Now, of course no hurler does this on purpose, but what does happen is that you can end up for example, hurling your weapon at a piece of lichen instead of a lich. Even if you are using a returning weapon, it won't return, but rather ends up laying on the ground, as that script seems to trump returning scripts. To put it bluntly, returner or no returner, this sucks and needs to be fixed.

Since throwing a weapon at an inanimate objected can't do anything other than result in a moment of panic, or worse, a lost weapon, please change the result to something like this:

"you raise your axe in the air and wave it at the lichen menacingly. That will teach it!"

or in honor of The Gauntlet video game:

"Eat your food, don't kill it!"

Kerl

Mindful as I am with losing weapons, I like hurling random stuff at inanimate objects for fun...helps me relieve stress when punching bags aren't available.

While I agree totally that you shouldn't risk losing a weapon in this manner, I still would like the ability to throw things at stuff (occasionally I like to have a temper tantrum and throw something like a severed arm at somethin inanimate, like a bench or statue). Perhaps hurl will work only for attack but if i want to throw something in a temper tantrum it can be throw verb instead of hurl?

That works for me. The throw verb, as well as toss, are used for other things and could be used to generate the current effect. Also, my proposed menacing waving of your (insert item here) could fit well in your temper tantrum antics.

Kerl

That might help, but targeting random during an invasion is pretty much ass backwards compared to how you want to take down critters. It's also not the point. A possible temp stop-gap solution, but the problem is that there's a mechanic that just makes you drop your stuff on the ground. It's dumb and doesn't apply to any other attack type.

Kerl