hi i am playing a Vanguard with polarity gauntlet and i have entropic shield . i was wondering is it true i cant hold my shield with one of my gauntlets? like arent they basically gloves you wearing ? im so confused that you cant hold a shield with polarity gauntlets. basically i thought i could hold my shield and shoot with my pistols when i wore the gauntlets or even strike with my entropic strike and get the bonuses from the gauntlet to my entropic strike but dont know if its the case tbh.
You can hold your shield with one of your gauntlets, but that would prevent you from using the gauntlets. The gauntlets work in pairs
For example, a human with a power battleglove on one hand can still make ranged attacks with a longarm, but he can’t make melee attacks (and thus does not threaten any spaces) while doing so
So you CAN hold the shield with a guantleted hand, but that one gauntlet won't work anymore.
Polarity gauntlets fit snugly over the wearer’s extremities, and when activated, the two gloves generate an arc of electricity between them.
What you're describing would work with most gauntlets but not those ones because you need them both to generate the electricity
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You can hold your shield with one of your gauntlets, but that would prevent you from using the gauntlets. The gauntlets work in pairs
For example, a human with a power battleglove on one hand can still make ranged attacks with a longarm, but he can’t make melee attacks (and thus does not threaten any spaces) while doing so
So you CAN hold the shield with a guantleted hand, but that one gauntlet won't work anymore.
Polarity gauntlets fit snugly over the wearer’s extremities, and when activated, the two gloves generate an arc of electricity between them.
What you're describing would work with most gauntlets but not those ones because you need them both to generate the electricity
Oh i see thx for this information.
Technically the battle glove describes the ability to hold things in that hand, but not all "glove" or "gauntlet" weapons have this verbiage. Strictly speaking, if they don't say you can use that hand for using other items, it's not possible, but the implications of this are just so, so dumb. I have to go with BNW's interpretation that polarity gauntlets just wouldn't work, but you could hold a shield (and other weapons) with them as long as they weren't active.
Technically the battle glove describes the ability to hold things in that hand, but not all "glove" or "gauntlet" weapons have this verbiage. Strictly speaking, if they don't say you can use that hand for using other items, it's not possible
That really doesn't follow. There's no rule that you can only HOLD one weapon in your hand. (and from cleaning up my room i know you can hold quote a few knives/swords/machetes/axes at once) The rules do suggest that it's possible. What the rules prohibit is wielding more than one weapon in your hand. Hold and wield are two different things
Even if you could hold two weapons in the same hand, you can’t use the hand to wield both weapons. For example, a human with a power battleglove on one hand can still make ranged attacks with a longarm, but he can’t make melee attacks (and thus does not threaten any spaces) while doing so. As a swift action, the human can switch to hold his longarm with only one hand, allowing him to make attacks with the battleglove, but while doing so he can’t make longarm attacks.
It doesn't seem like the powerglove is supposed to be a unique exception. And I think it's reasonable for authors to expect people to know how gloves work.
I mean, yeah, but why would they put specific language about how gloves work in Battleglove but not some of the others? Or, better yet, just make a "glove" weapon property that clarifies it?
Because there are gloves you can't use for other stuff, like the painclaw's "The hand wearing a painclaw can’t be used to hold or operate any other weapon or piece of equipment."
So between specific verbiage on the battleglove and the painclaw we get a number of weapons where it simply goes unsaid.
While it is "reasonable," I'm not sure gamers can be trusted with "reasonable" interpretations.
That inconsistency is interesting. I gave my Soul Flarion a pair of Polarity Gauntlets to use for AoOs, figuring they worked just like... gauntlets.
Guess I'll add that to my list of questions for the GM when I sit down to play him.
Do finger guns occupy a hand?
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My question is, do you need to supply your own "pew pew" noises when you do Solar Flare?
The gauntlets should really just have their own glove/gauntlet weapon property with the text of the battle glove in them. That way they can just tag the property on everything appropriately and not worry with word space (as it is a wordy description given the number of glove/gauntlet weapons).