Price/Rate This Item: Portable Tower Shield

[memesis]

Operating in a similar fashion to Heward's Handy Haversack and Ehlonna's Quiver, this item (shaped like a large bracelet, and taking up room where a buckler would) is permanently linked to a singularly-shaped extradimensional space. The wearer, as a free action, may draw a specially-prepared tower shield into the space, or deploy the shield in front of him, again as a free action. The item does not use charges. The extradimensional space cannot accommodate anything not shaped more or less like a tower shield; spikes, or other features that distort the shield's shape, are also forbidden.

 

[drnuncheon]

Operating in a similar fashion to Heward's Handy Haversack and Ehlonna's Quiver, this item (shaped like a large bracelet, and taking up room where a buckler would) is permanently linked to a singularly-shaped extradimensional space. The wearer, as a free action, may draw a specially-prepared tower shield into the space, or deploy the shield in front of him, again as a free action.

I'd look at the barricade buckler in Song & Silence, and then jack up the price fairly significantly because it's a free action to use and not a standard one.

Sadly, even a darkwood tower shield is too heavy for a glove of storing (and even that takes a standard action to vanish.)

J

 

[andargor]

From the SRD:

Glove of Storing
On command, one item held in the hand wearing the glove disappears. The item can weigh no more than 20 pounds and must be able to be held in one hand. While stored the item has negligible weight. With a snap of the fingers wearing the glove, the item reappears. A glove can only store one item at a time. Storing or retrieving an item is a free action. The item is held in stasis and shrunk down so small within the palm of the glove that it cannot be seen. If the effect is suppressed or dispelled, the stored item appears instantly. The creation process yields only one glove.
Caster Level: 6th; Prerequisites: Craft Wondrous Item, shrink item; Market Price: 2,200 gp; Weight: -.

Sounds like your item is a poor man's (or woman's) version of the Gloves of Storing. How about 1,100 gp?

Andargor

 

[andargor]

Re: Re: Price/Rate This Item: Portable Tower Shield

Sadly, even a darkwood tower shield is too heavy for a glove of storing (and even that takes a standard action to vanish.)

J

Ah! You are correct, a tower shield is 45 lb. Ok, I'd leave it at 2,200 because it's specific use.

And it's a free action, not a standard action.

Andargor

 

[Hypersmurf]

I have a sorcerer who, the day before setting off on an adventure, creates eight or so cloth-patch-form Tower Shields with Shrink Item. It lasts a day per level. It's a standard action, not a free action, to convert one back into a full-size shield, and once he's expanded one and used it, he tends to just leave it lying around... but they're only 30gp apiece, so who cares?

And one advantage of carrying half a dozen around is that when you meet the monster-with-the-nasty-breath-weapon or the corridor-lined-with-arrowslits, you have enough for one for everybody

Can't do that with a barricade buckler

-Hyp.

 

[Number47]

Why not just get an animated tower shield +1? Always handy, never hindering.

 

[memesis]

Why not just get an animated tower shield +1? Always handy, never hindering.

Pehaps to avoid the 9000-gp pricetag for something whose value comes mostly when multiple party members can use one

 

[The Souljourner]

Arms and Equipment Guide p95: Variable Shield. Small Steel Shield +1, on mental command from the user (standard action) it can change size from as small as a buckler to as large as a tower shield. 6,560gp.

Not quite what you were going for, but not bad either.

-The Souljourner