You strap a shield to your forearm and grip it with your hand. A heavy shield is so heavy that you can't use your shield hand for anything else. This includes spells with somatic components, carrying a item or drawing a Spell material component
Wooden or Steel: Wooden and steel shields offer the same basic protection, though they respond differently to spells and effects.
Shield Bash Attacks: You can bash an opponent with a heavy shield. See “shield, heavy” on Table: Weapons for the damage dealt by a shield bash. Used this way, a heavy shield is a martial bludgeoning weapon. For the purpose of penalties on attack rolls, treat a heavy shield as a one-handed weapon. If you use your shield as a weapon, you lose its Armor Class bonus until your next turn. An enhancement bonus on a shield does not improve the
Enhancements
| Material Enhancements | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Material | Average | Masterwork | Hardness | Hit Points | Special |
| Steel | 20 gp | 170 gp | 10 | 20 | |
| Wood | 7 gp | 157 gp | 5 | 15 | |
| Adamantine | 2,020 gp | 20 | 26 | Bypass hardness less than 20 | |
| Bone1 | 7 | 157gp | 5 | 15 | Armor bonus reduced by 1, Armor check penalty reduced by 1, Fragile quality |
| Darkwood | 257 gp | 5 | 15 | 1/2 Weight | |
| Dragonhide1 | 314 gp | 10 | 15 | ||
| Iron, Cold | 40 gp | 190 gp | 10 | 20 | Magical enchantments cost an additional 2,000 gp. |
| Mithral | 1,020 gp | 15 | 20 | 1/2 weight, no arcane spell failure chance | |
| Silver, Alchemical | 110 gp | 260 gp | 8 | 6 | −1 damage |
| 1 Cannot be purchased must be found on adventurers (GM's discretion) |
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| Weapon Enhancements | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Bonus Value | Additional Cost 1 | Hardness Increase 2 | Additional HP 2 |
| +1 | +1,000 gp | +2 | +10 |
| +2 | +4,000 gp | +4 | +20 |
| +3 | +9,000 gp | +6 | +30 |
| +4 | +16,000 gp | +8 | +40 |
| +5 | +25,000 gp | +10 | +50 |
| +6* | +36,000 gp 3 | +12 | +60 |
| +7* | +49,000 gp 3 | +14 | +70 |
| +8* | +64,000 gp 3 | +16 | +80 |
| +9* | +81,000 gp 3 | +18 | +90 |
| +10* | +100,000 gp 3 | +20 | +100 |
| 1 Unlike the additional cost, the increase to the armor or shield's hardness and hit points are only gained from its enhancement bonus, not its special abilities 2 If the armor or shield has a magical bonus greater than +5 or a special ability worth more than +5, then it's epic. Multiply magic cost by 10. |
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