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[Vaalingrade]

Maybe her player just thinks fingerless gloves look cool, thereby being a correct person?

 

[MNblockhead]

Maybe her player just thinks fingerless gloves look cool, thereby being a correct person?

My 19-year-old self appreciates that.

My 52-year-old self doubts I look cool in my fingerless gloves with mitten flaps. Especially in April.

 

[Vaalingrade]

The mitten flaps might have something to do with that.

Practical, yes. Fashionable? Maybe.

 

[Hussar]

Hey, I just realized, given the pose, this must be worth two Storms:




After all, leg up, hands out, no pupils. That's a pair of Storms right there.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Can we find any official 5e are with male wizards wearing glovettes?

The concept art for BG3 Gale has him wearing fingerless gloves.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I think we all missed an important detail in this painting. She's wearing bodywear with gloves under her other clothes...

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...but she cut off the fingers.

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Now, I'll admit to having worn gloves with the top halves of the fingers cut off, and smoking Swisher Sweets Cigarillos, but I was 19 and a ridiculous person.

So can we please spend the next 50 pages discussing whether:

(A) she just has great, trend-setting fashion sense;

(B) she is a ridiculous young apprentice (seems too powerful of a castor, but maybe she stole her professor's glasses of spell storing), or

(C) Somatic components don't work for casting unless the tips of your fingers are uncovered.

Surely this is an important and compelling detail that deserves more attention than her glasses, what spells she's casting, or the colors of her outerwear.

I think you are wrong in this interpretation. But if it were accurate, that could be considered anachronistic. Elastic* fabrics didn't start to come in until the 19th century (and then were limited to bathing, circus and theatrical costumes). 19th century Leotards were made from kitted cotton, Nylon was invented in 1935, with other synthetics following soon after.

*Wool was used for hose, but has a somewhat limited ability to return to it's original shape compared to modern synthetic fabrics.

 

[pemerton]

I think we all missed an important detail in this painting. She's wearing bodywear with gloves under her other clothes...

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...but she cut off the fingers.

I noticed this:

Just following this bit of advice - why is she wearing fingerless gloves? (Or is it a body suit with holes only for the fingers rather than the whole hand?)

Fashion knows no logic either in the real world, or in the imagined world of fantasy artists.

It's folly to question it.

 

[Umbran]

She has the magic to have her books fly around her but has to use her fingers to flip the pages?

Yeah. In the same way that you can have technology that allows robots to assemble cars, but you still tie your own shoes by hand. You don't use a 7th level spell slot to turn pages on a book when fingerless gloves will do the trick.

 

[Cadence]

And now I'm wondering if spell casters ever carry a pair of those archivists gloves (with fingers) for when they find a really old spell book.

 

[Umbran]

Given that she's indoors, not otherwise wearing cold-weather wear

Castles aren't known for being cozy.

"She isn't wearing a parka, so she must not be cold at all," is a failure to understand the concept of layering for warmth.