Unarmed Combat Again

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Originally Posted by Shostak

I couldn't agree more. I think the armor prohibition is silly, too, considering that samurai would have been trained in UC and used punches and throws if necessary, despite wearing significant armor.

By RAW, most armor prevents the use of the higher tier UC talents based on their DX penalties alone. So even if you ignore the blanket prohibition statement, you would need a very high DX (or deep pockets for DX-boosting enchantments) unless those minimums are removed as well.

Although, I suppose that may a GM discretion thing since, unlike FENCER, the text does not explicitly say your adjDX may not drop below the prerequisite stat values.