Unarmed Combat Again

[David Bofinger]

I'm not sure how good unarmed combat is meant to be. From a realism POV not nearly as good. From a balance POV it has special advantages (never disarmed, not visibly armed, no time wasted preparing weapons) so not as good as fighting with weapons. How much worse depends on how important you see those advantages as being but it may be intended that unarmed combat characters be used mostly in campaigns where such advantages are of great value.