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[Skies] Shield - Stormcrash Shield

Added 2023-02-13 15:02:00 +0000 UTC

This shield's core design existed for several years now, only making its way to art recently. It is designed to trade the shield itself for a strong protective effect (which is a more involved decision tree), and requires gold value to upkeep (for a more meaningful decision impact and world connection). Thematically, its properties reflect lightning and thunder (hey!).

+1 shields are typically uncommon, and since these properties fire off only on occasion, rare seemed like a good place to put it.

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A piece of a condensed lightning crystal called aethrum is embedded in the center of this bronze shield, softly vibrating from the wild energy trapped within. Each piece of the shield interlocks and fractures in a certain way to safely absorb powerful impacts.

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Stormcrash Shield
Shield, rare

You have a +1 bonus to your AC while you wield this shield, in addition to its normal bonus to AC.

Lightning. When you score a critical hit with a melee weapon attack while you wield this shield, you can immediately use a bonus action to activate the shield, dealing 1d6 lightning damage to the target.

Thunder. While you wield this shield, you can use it to absorb deadly strikes. Immediately after you are critically hit by an attack, you can use your reaction to reduce any damage you take to 0, and the shield emits a thunderous boom heard up to 300 feet. Any other effects of the critical hit still occurs. You must use this reaction before damage is rolled. Once this property is used, the shield breaks and cannot be wielded again until it is repaired. The shield can be repaired over the course of a short or long rest by a creature proficient with smith's tools, expending materials worth at least 25 gold.