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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Micah Sweet" data-source="post: 8871541" data-attributes="member: 6747251">To me, the problem here is that poison used to have an effect rather than "damage" directly. Save or die, ability reduction, unconsciousness, what have you.  Then in 4e (might have been 3e; I don't have my books available) it was decided that each form of dragon breath should use it's own damage type, and poison damage was born.  5e carried that over.  If the contact poison in question does poison damage in 5e, than whether or not you wear gloves isn't intended to matter, just your success or failure on the save; it's a consequence of the system's simplicity and abstraction.If you want the gloves to matter, I feel you should use rules for poison that specifically take that sort of thing into account.  Vanilla 5e really doesn't.</blockquote>