Bare hands

The bare hands skill is used when attacking while wielding nothing. Every class has this skill, except Monks and Samurai, who instead possess the superior martial arts skill. The following information may not apply to Monks, who can be powerful fighters even in the absence of a weapon.

Strategy
While a desperate player may need to attack with bare hands from time to time, the need is so rare and the benefit so marginal that this skill should never be enhanced by most characters. Carrying some form of ranged attack will greatly reduce your need to resort to bare hands.

Attacking with bare hands causes silver damage if you are wearing a silver ring and no gloves. However, bare-handed damage is so poor that only a martial artist should bother doing this.

Bare-handed attacks do not break the never hit with a wielded weapon conduct, but neither do attacks from wielded non-weapon items.