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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scharlata" data-source="post: 1797110" data-attributes="member: 4806">Hi!FAQ, 6th of Sept. 2004:Q: What happens when you make a shield fromadamantine or mithral? The adamantine description saysyou can make a shield from the metal, but there’s no costgiven. What is the price for an adamantine shield? Whatbenefits do you get from an adamantine shield? Do you getdamage reduction? If so, how much? What if you have anadamantine shield and adamantine armor? Does thedamage reduction stack? When you make a shield frommithral, what benefits do you get? If you had a mithralheavy shield, would it have the properties of a light metalshield? (A light shield’s weight lets you carry other items inthat hand, although you cannot use weapons with it.) Whatwould the damage rating be for a shield bash with a heavymithral shield? Also, the mithral heavy shield listed on page220 in the Dungeon Master’s Guide weighs 5 pounds, lessthan half of what a heavy steel shield weighs. The text formithral on page 284 says a mithral item weighs half what anormal item weighs. Which one is correct?A: An adamantine shield costs an extra 5,000 gp (the same asthe extra cost for adamantine light armor). Adamantine armorgives you some damage reduction (how much depends on thekind of armor; see page 283 in the Dungeon Master’s Guide)but an adamantine shield does not. An adamantine shield isalways a masterwork shield, so its armor check penalty isreduced by 1 (–0 for a buckler or light shield, –1 for a heavyshield). An adamantine shield also has a hardness of 20 and onethird more hit points than normal (6 for a buckler, 13 for a lightshield, 26 for a heavy shield). A tower shield is made fromwood, so you can't make one from adamantine.The basic properties of a mithral shield remain unchanged.For example, a mithral heavy shield is still a heavy shield. Ifyou’re size Medium and you shield bash with a heavy mithralshield, you deal 1d4 points of damage (or 1d6 if the shield hasa shield spike). You can’t use your shield hand for anythingelse when you’re using a heavy mithral shield.Any mithral item is masterwork, but the –3 armor checkreduction for a mithral item already includes the adjustment fora masterwork item. Any mithral item has a hardness of 15, butit has no extra hit points.In general, mithral items weigh half what their normalcounterparts weigh. When you find a specific listing for amithral shield or armor, however, use the weight listed for it,not what the formula gives you. A mithral chain shirt, forexample, weighs only 10 pounds (see page 20 of the DungeonMaster’s Guide), not 12 1/2 pounds (half the normal weight of25 pounds).Kind regards</blockquote>

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