So my characters tied a rope around the arm of the rusted statue and managed to break the shield free. They were pulling the arm and shield closer to them, so at one point it came hurtling at them destroying the Paladins armour. After a brief struggle the metal hating Druid dragged the shield into room 9.
The interesting thing was that they have used the shield twice to great effect. First, when they came to the blades in 15, the druid went back retrieved the shield and tossed it at the blades destroying them. (I will have withers and his crew replace them)
The second time they used it was when they found Yaka. Since it indicates that the shield destroys even non-ferrous metals like gold. I ruled that the since the gold coating was destroyed on the skull that Yaka was 'destroyed' but will reemerge on his pedestal later.
Have any of your groups used the shield for other interesting or creative solutions?
It's a cool idea :) but requires some DM cooperation and interpretation for it to work. The very first sentence of section 8 says ..
A magical field around the statue attracts metal objects of any kind (not just ferrous metal).
.. so many DMs might not associate the field directly with the shield.
Any creature wearing or carrying metal items that enters the room or starts its turn there can feel the pull of the statue and must succeed on a DC 10 Strength (Athletics) check to resist it.
The statue and shield are treated as a single Large object with AC 17; 40 hit pointsj immunity to piercing, bludgeoning, and slashing damage from nonmagical attacks; and immunity to poison and psychic damage. If the statue and shield are destroyed, the trap is disabled.
It is a DM call whether the trap remains functional if it is torn apart into pieces.
As a result, the number of groups that might have taken the shield depends on how generously the DM reads the text and describes the trap. When we played it, the DM described it as a magical field pulling anyone with metal towards the statue and shield. It wasn't specifically associated with the shield and although we figured we might be able to disarm the trap by destroying it, it never occurred to us, in part because of the way the DM chose to describe it, to take the shield and use it separately.
However, it is a cool use of the item in your campaign by your players because you read and interpreted it differently :)
So my characters tied a rope around the arm of the rusted statue and managed to break the shield free. They were pulling the arm and shield closer to them, so at one point it came hurtling at them destroying the Paladins armour. After a brief struggle the metal hating Druid dragged the shield into room 9.
The interesting thing was that they have used the shield twice to great effect. First, when they came to the blades in 15, the druid went back retrieved the shield and tossed it at the blades destroying them. (I will have withers and his crew replace them)
The second time they used it was when they found Yaka. Since it indicates that the shield destroys even non-ferrous metals like gold. I ruled that the since the gold coating was destroyed on the skull that Yaka was 'destroyed' but will reemerge on his pedestal later.
Have any of your groups used the shield for other interesting or creative solutions?
Does the Shields destroy metal magic items? It says that it doesn't destroy artifacts, but nothing about magic items.
It's a cool idea :) but requires some DM cooperation and interpretation for it to work. The very first sentence of section 8 says ..
A magical field around the statue attracts metal objects of any kind (not just ferrous metal).
.. so many DMs might not associate the field directly with the shield.
Any creature wearing or carrying metal items that enters the room or starts its turn there can feel the pull of the statue and must succeed on a DC 10 Strength (Athletics) check to resist it.
The statue and shield are treated as a single Large object with AC 17; 40 hit pointsj immunity to piercing, bludgeoning, and slashing damage from nonmagical attacks; and immunity to poison and psychic damage. If the statue and shield are destroyed, the trap is disabled.
It is a DM call whether the trap remains functional if it is torn apart into pieces.
As a result, the number of groups that might have taken the shield depends on how generously the DM reads the text and describes the trap. When we played it, the DM described it as a magical field pulling anyone with metal towards the statue and shield. It wasn't specifically associated with the shield and although we figured we might be able to disarm the trap by destroying it, it never occurred to us, in part because of the way the DM chose to describe it, to take the shield and use it separately.
However, it is a cool use of the item in your campaign by your players because you read and interpreted it differently :)