So, by RAW, I'm reading that a Chain Shirt should include Gauntlets.
Gauntlet: This metal glove lets you deal lethal damage rather than nonlethal damage with unarmed strikes. A strike with a gauntlet is otherwise considered an unarmed attack. The cost and weight given are for a single gauntlet. Medium and heavy armors (except breastplate) come with gauntlets. Your opponent cannot use a disarm action to disarm you of gauntlets.
This states that ALL medium and heavy armor (except the breastplate) includes gauntlets. Does this make sense? With the piece-mail rules, a chain shirt counts as Torso Chainmail, which should NOT include gauntlets (they'd be a part of the Arm Chainmail). Shouldn't the gauntlet description state except breastplate and chain shirt?
Chain shirt is light armor, so no, it doesn't come with gauntlets.
HA.. yeah, of course it is... I think I saw this one a Hero Lab build, so I wonder if Hero Lab is, for some reason, adding gauntlets to the chain shirt in error?
Nope, that was it.. the Hero Lab character was wearing a chain shirt, but also had scale mail in his inventory. hero lab created the 'Gauntlet' weapon, even though the armor it came from was not equipped, so i just saw him with a chain shirt, and a gauntlet attack.
false alarm, carry on. happy veterans day