I remember way back when, I accidentally ran CRPG mod and loaded my single player saved game. Went to buy armor and noticed an interesting thing with gloves. If they were cracked/tattered/etc they would have a negative modifier. But if they were armor 3 and had a -5 modifier they would loop over to 256 and count down instead of staying at 1, 0, or going negative.
176 gold for +254 armor cracked leather gloves? I AM BECOME DEATH, DESTROYER OF CPU ARMIES