» Thu May 03, 2012 4:58 am
A hand-to-hand character can be VERY difficult to start out, but can become awesomely powerful by late game (1 or 2 punch knockouts, even against high-level Daedra immune to normal weapons). As mentioned, you have to deplete their fatigue before you can even begin to do damage, while they keep getting up and doing actual damage to you in return. Healing spells or potions are a must.
There's a bug in the game (several hundred of them, actually), but a particular one prevents your unarmored skill from working unless you're wearing at least ONE piece of actual armor (a pair of boots or a leather wrist band will do). For a Monk character relying on Unarmored, this little tidbit is important to remember. The Morrowind Code Patch (if you play on PC) takes care of this and a host of other issues, and is highly configurable (with a neat menu when you run the patch installer) to allow you to fix or not fix whichever glitches you wish.