Invisibility and Animated Shields

[hetrulz316]

Hi all,

Will the shield be invisible? I really can see both sides of the arguement. I'm curious if anyone is familiar with an official ruling from WotC. How would the DMs out there adjucate this situation?

Thanks for your help,

Bill

 

[Liquidsabre]

Nope, the shield will be visible. The invisibility spell reads clearly that only gear on the character becomes invisibile. An animated shield: "..floats within 2 feet of the wielder."

 

[Piratecat]

*blink* Ioun stones would be visible, too. Wow. Never thought of that.

 

[Hypersmurf]

Nope, the shield will be visible. The invisibility spell reads clearly that only gear on the character becomes invisibile. An animated shield: "..floats within 2 feet of the wielder."

And yet the shield bonus from an Animated shield won't apply against touch attacks, for example. In many ways (including arcane failure, ACP, etc) the shield is treated exactly as if the character were holding it.

It's also an attended object, and within invisibility's 10 foot 'field' for carried objects.

I'm not sure one can dismiss the possibility that the spell would apply.

-Hyp.

 

[shilsen]

I'd say that if an object counts as attended and is within 10 feet, it is invisible.