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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 5345198" data-attributes="member: 22424">Okay, let's walk through this a step at a time...Because of a technicality in the 3e rules, a character wearing Spiked Gauntlets isn't actually unarmed - they're considered to be armed. Spiked Gauntlets are Simple Weapons, so you don't need to worry about non-proficiency penalties.For a standard attack, your attack bonus is +4 (+2 BAB, +2 Str), and you do 1d4+2 damage.As your BAB is only +2, your full attack is the same as your standard attack, unless you choose to use Two-Weapon Fighting. However, the penalties for doing so are huge: -4 with your main hand and -8 with your good hand.So, that would give you two attacks, the first with an attack modifier of +0 and the second at -4. Each attack does 1d4+2 damage.If you add the Two-Weapon Fighting feat, your attack penalties are much reduced, to 'only' -2 with each hand. In this case, you would get two attacks with an attack bonus of +2, each doing 1d4+2 damage.Neither of these feats are any use to you. Because Spiked Gauntlets are considered weapons not unarmed attacks, neither of these feats will help you.However, if you take Weapon Focus(spiked gauntlet), you will gain a +1 bonus to all of the attack modifiers listed above.In 3.5e, you cannot apply Power Attack to light weapons (including Spiked Gauntlets). So this feat will have no effect.In 3.0e, this restriction does not apply. In this case, you can choose to take a penalty of up to -2 on all your attacks in the round, and add the same value as a bonus to damage on a successful hit.See above.As noted above, because of the way Spiked Gauntlets are handled in the rules, you're not actually using Unarmed Combat.</blockquote>

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