>>96804150
>>96803571
unarmed is just dumb on its face because like
>>96804196
said
>you options basically boil down to
>a) storygames where method of attack is just flavor (Maid, Broken Worlds)

In any other context it's just stupid. It's a stupid idea whose execution requires a very high level of suspending your disbelief that even goes beyond suspending your belief in magic.

Even chimps in nature will try to use branches to strike each other. It is simple physics and logic that it's better to strike an opponent with an inanimate object especially one made for fighting, than it is to strike an opponent with a part of your own body (fist, foot, etc). Unarmed combat should at best be something that is only ever a factor when fighting against another unarmed opponent.

Everyone I have ever met who was into unarmed combat in games was either a weeb or a try-hard.