Gauntlets of Destruction: Proposed Errata?

[jedrious]

The introduction of the Brutal Keyword brings an interesting conundrum to the Gauntlets of Destruction so I propose the following Errata for the Gauntlets of Destruction

Gauntlets of Destruction                      Level 18+
Item Slot: Hands Level 18 85,000  Level 28 2,125,000
Property: Level 18: When rolling damage on melee attacks, reroll all 1s until they come up as something other than a 1
Level 28: Your melee weapons increase their Brutal value by 1, weapons without the Brutal keyword gain Brutal 2

 

[James McMurray]

Why is errata needed? Just don't bother mixing brutal weapons with gauntlets of desctruction.

 

[jedrious]

Why is errata needed? Just don't bother mixing brutal weapons with gauntlets of desctruction.

Then call it an update, it's not like there's a horde of options for hand slot items in Epic Tier

 

[Cadfan]

I'd be careful about that errata. It could create problems. Imagine a Brutal 1 weapon that does 2d4 damage. With those gauntlets, you'd be rerolling 50% of the dice. Could get annoying.

There's no way to know whether this would actually make a different in-game without knowing what weapons have Brutal built into them. But in general, I'm leery of making things like this stack without knowing for sure what the consequences will be.

 

[Tony Vargas]

When I see 'errata' in a thread title, I expect to see a link to a WotC update, or a comment (complaint, whatever) about a WotC 'update' - not a house rule you think WotC should adopt.

 

[keterys]

This is a really bad idea - you're increasing the power of the most powerful item of that slot, needlessly.

 

[Runestar]

It is possible that brutal will be reserved only for weapons with very large numerical ranges, to avoid unexpected synergy with vorpal.

 

[small pumpkin man]

Actually, if there was any update I expect, it would be more like this

Gauntlets of Destruction Level 18+
Item Slot: Hands Level 18 85,000 Level 28 2,125,000
Property: Any weapon you wield gains the Brutal:1 property. This does not stack with any existing brutal property the weapon already has.

The default in 4e is pretty much "it doesn't stack", not the other way around, as anyone who wanted to use a greataxe can tell you.