The Paladin Stallion

[ZatarRufus]

One tip I can add for punching chars:  Equip an ethereal weapon until it breaks.  After it is broken, you can still keep it in your weapon slot, and prevent equiping those annoying wands/scepters that your picking up for $.

The drawback to this method is: If you ever remove the unusable (broken) item, you cannot re-equip it.

Along the same line, I've used a +dex item to equip throwing knives & then remove the dex item to render it unusable. I did this while learning techniques for Nugis_Armatus, my weirdo variant barbarian. For the PS build, the low dex procedure would not be viable for more than level 1. (Unless you had enough items to vary the dex requirements.)