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Returning 35 results for 'Shield'.
Equipment
Shields require the Utilize action to Don or Doff. You gain the Armor Class benefit of a Shield only if you have training with it.
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Dungeon Master’s Guide
While holding this Shield, you have Advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects, and spell attack rolls have Disadvantage against you.
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Dungeon Master’s Guide
While holding this Shield, you have Advantage on Initiative rolls and Wisdom (Perception) checks. The Shield is emblazoned with a symbol of an eye.
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Dungeon Master’s Guide
While holding this Shield, you have a bonus to Armor Class determined by the Shield’s rarity, in addition to the Shield’s normal bonus to AC.
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Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
Soldiers of the Boros Legion consider it an honor to bear this shield, even knowing that it might be the last honor they receive. The front of the shield is sculpted to depict a grieving human face
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You gain a +1 bonus to AC for every two allies within 5 feet of you (up to a maximum of +3) while you wield this shield. This bonus is in addition to the shield’s normal bonus to AC.
When a
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Dungeon Master’s Guide
While holding this Shield, you can take a Bonus Action to cause it to animate. The Shield leaps into the air and hovers in your space to protect you as if you were wielding it, leaving your hands
free. The Shield remains animate for 1 minute, until you take a Bonus Action to end this effect, or until you die or have the Incapacitated condition, at which point the Shield falls to the ground or into your hand if you have one free.
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The Book of Many Things
You can make a ranged weapon attack with this magic shield. It has a normal range of 20 feet and a long range of 60 feet, and it uses your Strength or Dexterity for the attack roll (your choice). If
you’re proficient with shields, you are proficient with attacks made using this shield. On a hit, it deals 1d6 slashing damage. If you throw the shield, it reappears in your hand the instant after it hits or misses a target.
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Dungeon Master’s Guide
While holding this Shield, you have a bonus to Armor Class determined by the Shield’s rarity, in addition to the Shield’s normal bonus to AC.
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Dungeon Master’s Guide
While holding this Shield, you have a bonus to Armor Class determined by the Shield’s rarity, in addition to the Shield’s normal bonus to AC.
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Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
You gain a +1 bonus to Armor Class while wielding this shield.
The shield has 4 charges. While holding it, when a Large or smaller creature within 5 feet of you hits you with a melee attack roll
, you can take a Reaction to expend 1 of the shield’s charges and push the attacker up to 15 feet straight away. The shield regains 1d4 expended charges daily at dawn.
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Stranger Things: Welcome to the Hellfire Club
Crude metal spikes adorn this magic Shield. It has the following properties that you can use while holding it.
Shield Bash. When you take the Attack action, you can make one of the attack rolls
using the Shield against a target within 5 feet of yourself. Apply your Proficiency Bonus and Strength modifier to the attack roll. On a hit, the Shield deals Piercing damage equal to 2d6 plus your
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This open metal Shield hovers above its paired gauntlet, protecting you but leaving your hand free. While wearing the gauntlet, you are considered to be wielding the Shield, but you have a +1 bonus
to Armor Class instead of a Shield’s normal bonus to AC. Whenever you’re targeted by an attack roll made with a metal weapon or projectile, this bonus becomes +3 instead.
Shooting Star
Equipment
This mechanized shield retracts into a bracer worn on the forearm. With a quick motion, it can be expanded just as an opponent believes they’ve snuck a blow.
You can wear the Retractable
Shield as a bracer on your forearm, and it does not count as having that hand occupied while the shield is retracted. As a Reaction to an attack hitting you, you can extend the shield, giving you a bonus
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This reinforced wooden Shield is covered with ironleaf vines that grant you extra protection. You gain a +1 bonus to Armor Class while holding it. This bonus is in addition to the Shield’s
normal bonus to AC. In addition, the Shield reforms itself to fit you whenever you transform into a Beast while holding it. When you do, the ironleaf vines and wooden Shield latch onto your bestial form
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Dungeon Master’s Guide
While holding this Shield, you have Resistance to damage from attacks made with Ranged weapons.
Curse. This Shield is cursed. Attuning to it curses you until you are targeted by a Remove Curse spell
or similar magic. Removing the Shield fails to end the curse on you. Whenever an attack with a Ranged weapon targets a creature within 10 feet of you, the curse causes you to become the target instead.
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
While holding this Shield, you have a +2 bonus to Armor Class. This bonus is in addition to the Shield’s normal bonus to AC.
The Shield has the following additional properties that you can use
while holding it.
Forceful Bash. When you take the Attack action, you can make one of the attack rolls using the Shield against a target within 5 feet of yourself. Apply your Proficiency Bonus and
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With a hinged lower portion, this shield has the appearance of a dragon’s roaring mouth, complete with fiery interior. The dragonmaw shield’s opening is, in fact, a portal to a pocket
throw as the shield chomps at their weapon with its fiery maw. On a failed save, the creature takes 1d10 fire damage as the shield breathes a plume of scalding air at them. In addition, if the creature’s weapon is nonmagical, then any flammable components, such as those made of wood, are destroyed.
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This massive tower Shield requires a Strength score of 17 or higher in order to adequately wield it. The Shield is of dwarven make and functions as a small battlement, granting you a +1 bonus to
Armor Class while you wield it. This bonus is in addition to the Shield’s normal bonus to AC.
Shield Plant. As a Bonus Action, you can plant this Shield on the ground in your space to barricade
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This Shield has a hidden compartment inside it that can fire thick squid ink at attacking creatures. When a Large or smaller creature within 5 feet of you misses you with an attack roll, you can take
a Reaction to press a button on the Shield’s handle, spraying ink from the front of the Shield. The attacker must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or have the Blinded condition until the
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Dungeon Master’s Guide
You gain a +2 bonus to Armor Class against ranged attack rolls while you wield this Shield. This bonus is in addition to the Shield’s normal bonus to AC.
Whenever an attacker makes a ranged
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While holding this sturdy iron Shield, you can take a Magic action to plant it on the ground and expand its height and width to stretch up to 15 feet in either direction, potentially becoming a
defensive wall or similar platform. The edges of the Shield magically conform to fit the shape of an enclosed space within its expanded size, such as the walls of a tunnel or hallway. While holding the
Shield of Far Sight
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
A mind flayer skilled at crafting magic items creates a shield of far sight by harvesting an eye from an intelligent humanoid and magically implanting it on the outer surface of a nonmagical shield
. The shield becomes a magic item once the eye is implanted, whereupon the mind flayer can give the shield to a thrall or hang it on a wall in its lair. As long as the shield is on the same plane of
Equipment
This mechanized shield retracts into a bracer worn on the forearm. With a quick motion, it can be expanded just as an opponent believes they’ve snuck a blow.
You can wear the Retractable
Shield as a bracer on your forearm, and it does not count as having that hand occupied while the shield is retracted. As a Reaction to an attack hitting you, you can extend the shield, giving you a bonus
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The Book of Many Things
While you are wielding this shield, you gain a +1 bonus to AC. This bonus is in addition to the shield’s normal bonus to AC.
Curse. This item is cursed. Attuning to it extends the curse to you
until you are targeted by a Remove Curse spell or similar magic. You cannot discard the shield, and remain attuned to it, as long as you are cursed. As long as you are cursed, you are sluggish. Your
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This Shield is made from a piece of reclaimed dragon turtle shell. The dragon turtle head sculpture adorning its front is made of brass, and it magically creates and heats a small reservoir of water
that replenishes daily at dawn. When you take Fire damage while holding the Shield, you can take a Reaction to use a command word. When you do, the water inside it is superheated, reducing the Fire
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Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
The Shield of the Hidden Lord is of celestial origin and serves as a prison for the pit fiend Gargauth, whose mortal followers revere it as a god. Over time, Gargauth’s evil has warped the
shield’s appearance, so that its celestial motif and designs have become twisted into a fiendish face that subtly moves in disturbing ways.
While holding this shield, you gain a +2 bonus to AC and
Shield Guardian Amulet
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Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
The amulet is a 4-inch-wide disk composed of silver-framed wood, with a rune carved into its face. A detect magic spell reveals a magical aura of enchantment around the amulet.
Every shield
guardian has an amulet magically linked to it. A shield guardian can have only one corresponding amulet, and if that amulet is destroyed, the shield guardian is incapacitated until a replacement amulet
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Xanathar's Guide to Everything
The front of this Shield is shaped in the likeness of a face. While bearing the Shield, you can take a Bonus Action to alter the face’s expression.
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This steel Shield hides a slim chamber in its center where magical flora grow, accumulating toxic pollen. The chamber is covered with an intricate, interlocking series of metal plates and flaps that
can be released, unfurling to a shape that resembles a flower.
While holding the Shield with its plates collapsed, you can take a Reaction when a Large or smaller creature you can see within 5 feet
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This large shield provides more protection than a typical shield. While wielding a Tower Shield, you gain +3 to Armor Class. If you use an action to set the Tower Shield, you have Three-Quarters
Cover until the start of your next turn. Additionally, your Speed becomes 0 and cannot be increased during that time.
To wield a Tower Shield, you must have a Strength of at least 15 and your Speed is reduced by 10 feet while wielding the shield.
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Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
This shield is made from the scale of an ancient white dragon. It has a rune burned into its outward-facing side. A character who examines the rune and succeeds on a DC 20 Intelligence (History
) check recognizes it as an uven (“enemy” in Giant) rune that confers great power.
While holding the shield, you benefit from the following properties.
Winter’s Friend. You are immune to
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Curse of Strahd
This shield is a shield, +2;+2 shield emblazoned with a stylized silver dragon that is the emblem of the Order of the Silver Dragon (see chapter 7). The shield whispers warnings to its bearer, granting a +2 bonus to initiative if the bearer isn’t incapacitated.
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Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
Modeled after the formidable spiked tower shields wielded by some fire giants, this iron shield emanates a constant warmth.
You can use a bonus action to activate the shield, causing glowing lava to
flow through the shield’s grooves for 1 minute. While the shield is active, you gain the following benefits:
Blazing Soul. You have immunity to fire damage.
Cleansing Fire. As an action, you
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
Every shield guardian has an amulet magically linked to it. A shield guardian can have only one corresponding amulet, and if that amulet is destroyed, the shield guardian is incapacitated until a
replacement amulet is created.
A shield guardian’s amulet is subject to direct attack if it isn’t being worn or carried. It has AC 10, 10 hit points, and immunity to poison and psychic
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Dungeon Master’s Guide
While wearing these bracers, you gain a +2 bonus to Armor Class if you are wearing no armor and using no Shield.