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Hello!
I'm going to be a bit unspecific because its an item out of an adventure, but in the next session its very likely that my players are going to run across a cursed gauntlet. Part of the curse is that once put on the gauntlet forces their hand closed into a fist, effectively removing the 'free hand' trait so they can't use that hand beyond gauntlet strikes or using the items other powers.
This matters because its very likely that my team is going to be able to identify the items abilities, but not catch the curse. And upon doing that are going to decide those abilities are most useful for their swashbuckler.
The swashbuckler has a number of abilities that require them to be wielding a 1 handed melee weapon and have their other hand free. I'm pretty confident RAW it violates both of these things(The gauntlet would be a second melee weapon, and by definition it doesn't have free hand). However, I'm curious of people's feeling on this interaction. I think in spirit, he's not intending to use it as a weapon and for the swashbuckler feats their hand needs to be free for balance and pose rather than to grab someone.
I will say that I'm probably going to have it apply just because it will add some pressure and the party has the ability to resolve it(they have a scroll of remove curse).
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Congrats on your first mandatory side-quest?
If your story is running on some sort of time-crunch, The swashbuckler could just use the gauntlet AS his weapon until he gets fixed. Sorry half your feats don't work and that really expensive rapier is gathering dust.
As far as cursed items go there are way worse, and maybe next time the party will think twice about sticking appendages in to strange magical objects.