In my run up to starting my own game, I'm refreshing my read through the rules from, like, a month ago, and one thing I can't seem to find an answer to is: if your jenu has Natural Weapons, is there any MECHANICAL reason that you would ever use anything else?
Besides the obvious advantage that ranged weapons would give you, and the general superiority of Martial Arts over everything, I can't find why, say, I'd ever want to bother to learn to use a medium-sized crystal flail when I could just kick someone for (if I'm reading it correctly) the same damage.
Style is certainly its own justification, and given the general sense of Shard I wouldn't really be surprised if it were the reason, but I'm paranoid that I might be missing some mechanical nuance and I know my players will ask.
Besides the obvious advantage that ranged weapons would give you, and the general superiority of Martial Arts over everything, I can't find why, say, I'd ever want to bother to learn to use a medium-sized crystal flail when I could just kick someone for (if I'm reading it correctly) the same damage.
Style is certainly its own justification, and given the general sense of Shard I wouldn't really be surprised if it were the reason, but I'm paranoid that I might be missing some mechanical nuance and I know my players will ask.