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Dwarven Light Tower Shield

Martial One-Handed Melee Race Restrictions: Dwarf Size Restrictions: Small, Medium, Large Critical: ×2 Range Increment: — Type: Bludgeoning Shield Bonus: +2 Maximum Dex Bonus: +2 Armor Check Penalty: −10 Arcane Spell Failure Chance: 40% Hardness (Iron): 10 Hardness (Wood): 5
Size	Cost		Damage	Weight		HP
	Steel	Wood		Steel	Wood	Steel	Wood
Fine	12 gp	4 gp 1 sp	1	2 lb.	1-1/2 lb.	2	2
Diminutive	12 gp	4 gp 1 sp	2	2 lb.	1-1/2 lb.	3	2
Tiny	12 gp	4 gp 1 sp	1d2+1	2 lb.	1-1/2 lb.	7	4
Small	24 gp	8 gp 4 sp	1d3+1	9 lb.	7-1/2 lb.	12	9
Medium	24 gp	8 gp 4 sp	1d4+1	18 lb.	15 lb.	24	18
Large	48 gp	16 gp 8 sp	1d6+1	36 lb.	24 lb.	48	36
Huge	96 gp	33 gp 6 sp	1d8+2	90 lb.	70 lb.	96	72
Gargantuan	192 gp	67 gp 2 sp	2d6+3	175 lb.	135 lb.	192	134
Colossal	384 gp	134 gp 4 sp	3d6+5	220 lb.	170 lb.	384	288

Description

You strap a Dwarven invented tower shield to your forearm and grip it with your hand. This tower shield doesn't allow you use of your shield hand for anything else. This tower shield is light enough for any Dwarf to use it for the purposes of shield bashing and may be further modified to include spikes. These specialized shields would not be crafted for races other than a Dwarf, as they would serve minimal purpose and better alternatives would exist for them.

Wooden or Steel: Wooden and steel shields offer the same basic protection, though they respond differently to special attacks.

Shield Bash Attacks: You can bash an opponent with this tower shield, using it as an off-hand weapon. Used this way, a tower shield is a martial bludgeoning weapon. For the purpose of penalties on attack rolls, treat a tower shield as a one-handed weapon. If you use your shield as a weapon, you lose its AC bonus until your next action (usually until the next round). An enhancement bonus on a shield does not improve the effectiveness of a shield bash made with it, but the shield can be made into a magic weapon in its own right.

Enhancements

Shield Spikes: When added to your shield, these spikes turn it into a martial piercing weapon that increases the damage dealt by a shield bash as if the shield were designed for a creature one size category larger than you. Otherwise, attacking with a spiked shield is like making a shield bash attack.

Table: Tower Spiked Shield Damage

Fine	Diminutive	Tiny	Small	Medium	Large	Huge	Gargantuan	Colossal
1	1d2+1	1d3+1	1d4+2	1d6+2	1d8+3	2d6+3	3d6+4	4d6+4

An enhancement bonus on a spiked shield does not improve the effectiveness of a shield bash made with it, but a spiked shield can be made into a magic weapon in its own right.

Compared to a regular heavy shield, a heavy spiked shield costs 10 gp more and is 5 lb. heavier.

Tower Shield Material Enhancements

Material	Average	Masterwork^1	Hardness	hp	Special
Steel	20 gp	170 gp	10	20	—
Wood	7 gp	157 gp	5	15	—
Adamantine	—	2,020 gp	20	26	Bypass hardness less than 20
Deep Crystal	—	1,007 gp	10	45	Psionic
Mundane Crystal	—	153 gp	8	37	No rusting, not metal
Darkwood	—	257 gp	5	15	1/2 weight
Dragonhide	—	314 gp	10	15	Usable by druids
Iron, Cold	40 gp	190 gp	10	20	Magical enchantments cost an additional 2,000 gp.
Mithral	—	1,020 gp	15	20	1/2 weight, no arcane spell failure chance
Silver, Alchemical	110 gp	260 gp	8	6	−1 damage
Unlike other weapons, shields do not gain an enhancement bonus on attack rolls from being masterwork quality. Instead their armor check penalties are lessened by 1.

Race Restriction

Because of this shield being designed by Dwarves, for Dwarves, it is specially made for them to wield this tower shield. If any other race who were to wield it other than a Dwarf, they would not gain the full benefit of the shield. For races other than Dwarf, this shield will provide full cover and act as a proper tower shield if the size of the other race is the same, or smaller, than the dwarf who wielded it, however at a 5ft move penalty and will require an appropriate Strength check to ensure they are able to carry this shield. For any races who are of equal size or larger, and appropriate strength, this shield will instead be considered an Exotic Light Weapon, not offer full-cover and instead will have the following stats as they are untrained and wielding this type of shield is not intended for them:

Dwarven Light Tower Shield

Exotic Light Melee Critical: ×2 Range Increment: — Type: Bludgeoning Shield Bonus: +1 Maximum Dex Bonus: — Armor Check Penalty: −8 Arcane Spell Failure Chance: 30% Hardness (Steel): 10
Size	Cost		Damage	Weight		HP
	Steel	Wood		Steel	Wood	Steel	Wood
Fine	—	—	—	2 lb.	1-1/2 lb.	2	2
Diminutive	—	—	1	2 lb.	1-1/2 lb.	3	2
Tiny	—	—	2	2 lb.	1-1/2 lb.	7	4
Small	—	—	1d2	9 lb.	7-1/2 lb.	12	9
Medium	—	—	1d3	18 lb.	15 lb.	24	18
Large	—	—	1d4	36 lb.	24 lb.	48	36
Huge	—	—	1d6	90 lb.	70 lb.	96	72
Gargantuan	—	—	1d8	175 lb.	135 lb.	192	134
Colossal	—	—	2d8	220 lb.	170 lb.	384	288