I appreciate you wanting to reign in RDM with the sword, but I wonder if having it affect karma could lead to unintentional kills and karma bans. For example, I pick up the sword, kill nobody, and set it down. Then, a few people unassumingly walk over it and die. Even though I did not intend to kill anyone, my karma might still be affected. I think it might be better to simply have damage caused by the sword be tracked in the damage logs and allow the staff to handle sword kills on a case-to-case basis. I believe this would give room for people to mess around with the sword while still holding genuine RDMers accountable. I'm open to discussion, of course.