Leather gloves
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|---|---|
| Appearance | random |
| Slot | gloves |
| AC | 1 |
| Special | (none) |
| Base price | 8 zm |
| Weight | 10 |
| Material | leather |
Leather gloves are a type of gloves that appear in NetHack. They are known as yugake to Samurai, and have a randomized appearance when unidentified.
Generation
Monks start each game with a +2 pair of leather gloves, Healers start each game with a +1 pair of leather gloves, and Knights start the game with a +0 pair of leather gloves. Barbarians, Samurai and Valkyries start the game with knowledge of the pair of leather gloves' randomized appearance.
Strategy
While lacking in perks compared to the gauntlets of dexterity or gauntlets of power, simple leather gloves are still more than sufficient enough to last you through the game: any pair of gloves is enough to prevent most footrice-related deaths (e.g. moving over a footrice corpse while blind or attacking a live one bare-handed), as well as allowing you to wield footrice corpses as weapons. If you have settled on them as your long-term gloves, you may consider using enchant armor scrolls on them before other armor, since they cannot be lost to unexpected polymorph (e.g, from a polymorph trap).
Identification
Leather gloves are trivial to distinguish via price identification, due to having a lower base cost than other randomized gloves (8zm versus 50).
Encyclopedia entry
The following entry only appears for "yugake":
Japanese leather archery gloves. Gloves made for use while
practicing had thumbs reinforced with horn. Those worn into
battle had thumbs reinforced with a double layer of leather.
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