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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vorput" data-source="post: 3678679" data-attributes="member: 35874">There already is such an ability- the animated ability in the DMG- which still causes spell failure, armor check, etc.  Unless there's a good reason- I don't think I'd allow such a thing- but if you did, it would have to be at least equivalent to a +4 bonus (double the animated bonus).Another way of going about it, (I don't have the item creation guideline in front of me or I'd price it) is the normal cost of a +4 shield bonus (think it's armor bonus squared times 1k gp, but with some modifer because its a shield, not armor, bonus).  Then try to find an item that grants full cover- I can't think of any, and add that price onto it.  Perhaps look at cloak of displacement- which is arguably a weaker item, useable only 15 rounds per day  and costing 50k... and double that?  So... 100k + (16k*1.5)= 124,000?  Still seems cheap for the benefit granted :/ I had a Wizard back in an old 3e game that had a Gorilla familiar named Sprinkles who'd just walk around in front of him holding a tower shield.  Same thing you're looking for- but I bet'ch you it's a heck of a lot cheaper/ <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />Vorp</blockquote>