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Zombayz1 07-11-06, 03:23 AM	This has recently come up on a character concept I was working on: Is a warforged considered to be wearing gauntlets? Say, if I were to make a Warforged fighter specializing with gauntlets. Warforged who have the Adamantine Body are considered to be wearing heavy armor. Does this include gauntlets (as all suits of heavy armor include gauntlets)? Or could a warforged wear (specialized) guantlets? Please help me on this, as I am completely stumped!
Tempest Stormwind 07-11-06, 04:14 AM	No, they are not (regardless of which body feat he takes). Although magic gauntlets, as all magic items, can be made as warforged components. Proof? Let's go with heavy armor. You're treated as wearing heavy armor. Your argument goes "all heavy armors printed say 'it includes gauntlets'". I point you to that very sentence -- if having gauntlets was a necessary element of heavy armor, it wouldn't need to be specified (sort of like having footwear isn't explicitly mentioned in any armor description except full plate, or how in the SRD -- the actual nuts and bolts rules -- none of the armors say they have a breastplate). Even if they WERE considered part of the armor instead of a separate item that comes with the armor and can be changed, do you allow your players to wear a chain shirt with a hat? If you do, you allow them to swap elements of the armor which are listed as accessories (since a chain shirt comes with a steel cap, much the same way that heavy armor comes with gauntlets), and thus simply not wearing the gauntlets is a simple enough choice. And if you can swap elements like that, what's stopping you from swapping to nothing? A warforged isn't considered to be wearing gauntlets, although even if you DID say that it was, nothing except a vindictive DM would say you couldn't remove them.
Zombayz1 07-11-06, 01:36 PM	Thanks Tempest. I really needed that information. Have a cookie :cookie: !