Items:Armour:Gloves
Overview
Gloves, as an armour category, include anything that is worn on the hands and provides protection or greater melee damage potential. This includes leather gloves, chain gloves, plate gauntlets, and even some exotic weapons like triquetra. Even blacksmiths' gloves provide some degree of protection. Unlike bracers, gloves must be worn in pairs.
Cloth Gloves
Perhaps the simplest kind of glove is the heavy cloth glove. Their armour rating is minimal, but they are available everywhere. Cloth gloves are considered light armour, so any class and race can equip them. To provide armour value, cloth gloves must be made of wool, muslin, or canvas. Silk or linen gloves, unless embroidered with runes, provide no armour value.
Leather Gloves
Leather gloves are also considered light armour, so they are available to all classes and races.
Chain gloves
Chain gloves are usually worn over cloth gloves and are medium armour. The cloth gloves do not provide any armour value. The chain gloves themselves provide moderate protection against slashing, piercing, and crushing attacks, but provide less protection against alchemical attacks.
Plated gauntlets
Plated gauntlets are considered heavy armour. Plated gauntlets are usually forged out of iron and steel. They are fashioned out of many small plates that are bound together with leather. They are too heavy to be worn by anyone who has not been trained to wear them.
Blacksmiths' Gloves
Blacksmiths' Gloves are considered uncommon items. Unlike most leather gloves, they provide extra protection against heat and fire damage.
Boxing Gloves
The boxing glove is a special, uncommon kind of glove that is worn almost exclusively monastic characters. In design, it is very similar to the ancient 'gloves' worn by Greco-Roman boxers, and consists of three or four leather strips of various widths. These strips are all attached to a leather thong wrapped around the wearer's fore-arm. The wearer then wraps these leather strips around his arm in a kind of braid pattern, passes them all through the palm of his hand, and then wraps them around his fingers before binding the four strips together with a clasp on the back of his hand.