Gloves and contact poison traps

[Liminal Syzygy]

Hmm... Good point about wiping your brow with the glove the poison has rubbed off on. Maybe this is just one of those abstractions.

 

[Snipehunt]

My thoughts, if the poison can get through human skin (and heck even natural armored skin of many creatures) then it can get through the glove material and still effect you. You don't reduce the DC against creatures with natural AC do you?

Most gloves aren't permeable to liquid, at least in the amounts a contact poison would provide. They're treated to be somewhat waterproof IMC, even if they are soft leather. If you were washing your gloved hands in a big vat of poison, then maybe some would seap through.

Natural armor and other armored skins aren't the same as leather gloves treated to be waterproof. Generally, there will still be skin (w/ blood vessels or whatever the appropriate thing is for that weird anatomy) over the armor plate or whatever. Some natural armor is just blubber or thick skin. So, unless the monster has some sort of carapace that is basically distinct from the rest of its body, IMO it suffers from contact poison.