payn
He'll flip ya...Flip ya for real...
Touched their face, wiped their brow, pulled off the glove for a moment, etc.. I just use the save as an abstraction of the how you got exposed and how you stopped from suffering or not.
D&D 5E The Gloves Are Off?
iserith
Magic Wordsmith
Something else I noticed about contact poisons in the DMG was that they don't really do damage. In contrast to ingested, inhaled, or injury poisons which can do damage, contact poisons appear to just poison/paralyze/knock out. I wonder if that is the design expectation for all contact poisons, given that there are no damn gloves in the D&D 5e universe (except magical ones).
Lanefan
Victoria Rules
Going by the PH: while having 4 different types of boots available along with two different helmets separate from armour, 1e does not have gloves or gauntlets as a separate thing.
But that's by RAW. Before I even started DMing we'd already expanded the equipment list considerably, and gloves (two types - "common" and "fancy") were on it. My current list shows three: "workman's", "fancy", and "winter". We also added "winter gear" as a kit, which includes mittens.
"Fancy" would include the type of soft supple gloves often worn by Thieves.
aco175
Legend
This is where I am on this. You get a saving throw to avoid the poison. That save may be because you were wearing gloves, you have tough skin, you quickly wiped it off on the wall, or whatever.
Lanefan
Victoria Rules
Are they listed as "mittens"?
Benjamin Olson
Hero
Players get to decide what their character's clothes look like. I'd rather let a few possibly convenient retcons slide than make everyone write out their outfits in detail and spend game time discussing day to day fashion choices, unless that's what the players want to focus on. Even many of the players who want to get into describing their characters sartorial choices probably generally don't want to do it in the form of some sort of arms race with the DM.
If a player seemed inclined to regularly abuse their aesthetic authority over their character to gain minor benefits I probably wouldn't play with them. But if extraneous factors led to me playing with someone who needed to be kept on such a short leash, I'd probably still let decisions about gloves slide, because I'd probably be babysitting that player more than enough on myriad other things that were more important and more the DM's business than how their character dresses.
Of course if a given table enjoys the player-DM arms race and battle of planning involved in penalizing people for not thinking of every mundane equipment contigency, declaring what they'll do about it and writing it on their character sheet, then by all means punish people for not writing down that they have gloves. It's a valid type of play, and I see the appeal. Being able to tell the DM "no, I'm wearing gloves, it's on my character sheet" in this sort of situation is doubtlessly very satisfying. I just find the amount of overhead in discussing and documenting trivial logistical choices is too high of a price to pay for most people.
If a player seemed inclined to regularly abuse their aesthetic authority over their character to gain minor benefits I probably wouldn't play with them. But if extraneous factors led to me playing with someone who needed to be kept on such a short leash, I'd probably still let decisions about gloves slide, because I'd probably be babysitting that player more than enough on myriad other things that were more important and more the DM's business than how their character dresses.
Of course if a given table enjoys the player-DM arms race and battle of planning involved in penalizing people for not thinking of every mundane equipment contigency, declaring what they'll do about it and writing it on their character sheet, then by all means punish people for not writing down that they have gloves. It's a valid type of play, and I see the appeal. Being able to tell the DM "no, I'm wearing gloves, it's on my character sheet" in this sort of situation is doubtlessly very satisfying. I just find the amount of overhead in discussing and documenting trivial logistical choices is too high of a price to pay for most people.
iserith
Magic Wordsmith
No mittens in D&D 3e PHB. It's wool coat, linen shirt, wool cap, heavy cloak, thick pants or skirt, and boots. You get +5 bonus to Fort saves against cold weather exposure, but your hands freeze and shatter like the T-1000 I guess.
Voadam
Legend
No.
"Cold Weather Outfit
A cold weather outfit includes a wool coat, linen shirt, wool cap, heavy cloak, thick pants or skirt, and boots."
Lanefan
Victoria Rules
Clearly written by someone unfamiliar with cold weather, while having a beer on the deck in mid-August.
Vaalingrade
Legend
To be honest, this is why I don't give a lot of weight to these kinds of traps in encounters.
Traps are basically a stationary monster that can be 'defeated' by not interacting with them, and if you do interact, it's all or nothing.
I feel people put way too much... I don't know... hope? Expectation? that the trap is going to go off and do something and when it's bypassed or obviated by direct action that other can have just as strong an expectation to do so, it's upsetting. They just add an element of greater chance someone's going to be annoy or upset when deployed this way.
So I approach traps two alternate ways: a spice in a situation that doesn't hinge on them going off or working, or enmasse where some of them are going to go off and we're just in full death room mode. Usually these are set pieces that both sides fo the actual encounter can use to their advantage if they spot it or know about it.
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