The thing is that I cant seem to find any tracking of their kills. I dont get it as a notable kill unless I deal the final blow, but they dont seem to have a 'k'ills page.
Do they get the notable kill in legends?
Check their inventory through look ('l') and then look at their primary weapon. It'll list the kills (both notable and other) made with that particular item as well as their total kills at the bottom. If they launched its brain through its skull by punching or kicking it in the head, it won't show up though.
Do many people have this problem? Is it something I wont notice once I get suitably awesome, or should I consider letting some go? Dont want them stealing the dragon I got assigned next but might want the help :p[/quote]
It becomes particularly annoying when the creature in question is one that was a really tough fight. On the other hand, killing a few high profile creatures like that really jacks up their stats in short order. I've had aventurers burdened by lugging around the corpse of the hydra we just killed get ambushed and had the entire ambush wiped out by his axelord sidekick before the adventurer can walk ten steps and that was with the axelord crawling around on his hands because of the crippled nerves in his foot
So, kill stealing is a nuisance against a major target (poor Goden never did get a kill against a Minotaur before I retired him), but immensely helpful against groups of opponents.