G'day all, I'm a DM that's only recently began running Pathfinder 2e games beyond small one off adventures.
Anyway one of my players is falling in love with the gauntlet Bow and wants to use it on an Orc hungerseed exemplar. They want to dual wield it and use hands of the wildling + twin stars as their main weapons. They also plan to take the crossbow infiltrator dedication as a free archetype to get a spam fire ability (Cresent cross) using their crossbows incase enemies run, which I tend to have humanoids do when they fall to 20%-10% max HP.
Anyway my player is taking orc feats that buff unarmed blows and asked me if they can make unarmed strikes even though they'll be wearing the gauntlet bows (not strikes with the gauntlets but regular unarmed attacks such as the hunger seed horn or orcs iron fists). I have allowed it after letting them know they'd need a seperate item for runes (such as hand wraps of mighty blows) to get runes on their unarmed strikes and runes on the gauntlet Bow would only effect the weapon.
Though I likely won't change my ruling for this campaign, I would like to know if others think unarmed strikes should be allowed while wearing free-hand weapons such as the gauntlet Bow or a gauntlet buckler?
Thanks all