You point out a problem I've been having.
I have the exact same point of view but right now I can only intuitively rule over these cases without having found a way to write it down.
Maybe I'll have to make a chart with Monster base attack and defend dice values when they're weaponless, otherwise Heroes WILL discuss my giving an Ogre who lost his club 2 attacks with 2 combat dice each (a proper fist fight, that is). Of course, he will, with each weaponless attack, only be able to take 1 BP, not 2 (that's a rule I've written for weaponless combat), but nevertheless there's GOING TO BE dicscussions I don't want.
MY WEAPONLESS ATTACK RULE:
If a monster or hero has to attack weaponless, he/it does so with his/its assigned weaponless combat dice and hits with his assigned probability.
Heroes roll 1 combat die and hit with: Fighter classes , adventurer/scout classes spellcaster classes
A spellcaster will only ever try to attack weaponless when there's is no chance to escape the fray.
From a weaponless attack, Heroes and monsters can only ever lose 1 BP, regardless of how many skulls from the attack were not negated by shields.I wrote this to have a guideline how to handle these quests where the heroes got caught and robbed off their equipment without getting unrealistic.
Now you brought up a second reason for me to have done this. The Rust spell demands it, too.
Still, the biggets problem is assigning each and every monster a base weaponless attack dice number. For the existing monsters, no problem, quickly whipped up:
Skeleton: 0 (it will shatter itself),
Goblin 1 (hitting with
),
Orc 1 (
),
Fimir 1 (
),
Zombie 1 (
),
Mummy ... well, wouldn't know what to do with that, cause it's weaponless, anyway. I pretend there's a powerful magic behind it nevertheless having 3 AD, so no change there...
Chaos Warrior 2 (
),
Gargoyle stays at 4 because of his stoney hardness,
Ogre 2, two attacks (
)
Ice Gremlin 0 (simply too cowardish, WILL try to steal an item)
Polar Warbear 2 (
)
Yeti stays at 3
Frozen Horror and certain other characters 2 (
)
Elven Archer and Warrior 1 (
)
Giant Wolf, no need to change anything
Remember: A weaponless attack can not result in a loss of more than one body point at a time.
An exception you could easily make: if a monster of hero may attack with 3 AD or more when weaponless.
My
, right there.