Hi.

I was thinking about the gauntlets of peace and had the following idea. While wearing a pair of these certainly makes the game harder, I was wondering if it could be possible to give them some "non-obvious" positive uses. In particular, they make it harder from the player's point of view, but from the point of view of the in-game universe I'd imagine they could be considered an attempt to create "goodness" in the world by making people peaceful. So I was wondering: maybe, if you wear them for a protracted period of time, they could very slightly train alignment -- like an amulet of order, only without the burning damage against chaotics (the penalties to combat balance it out), and with a significantly smaller effect. The idea being that you are being kept peaceful and therefore away from "badness" (i.e. violence). Of course, it's easier to change alignment early in the game, but then survival is harder, so the combat penalties are more punishing, while later in the game when the penalties are not as much of a problem, alignment change is harder, so I don't think this would be game-breakingly overpowered, or even overpowered at all, for that matter.

What do you think? Also, offensive magic use could negate the effect -- you're "breaking the contract of peace", or something to that effect. Perhaps also if you attack (or, at least, hit) anything with the gauntlets on, it might negate the effect for a time.

Also, the gauntlets of eternal peace could have a slightly stronger effect, though perhaps the penalties to combat should be somewhat increased to compensate if necessary (or maybe not).