Adamantine Shields

[Tarma]

Can you make shields out of adamantine? If not, is there a gameplay reason as to why? It seems that shields and adamantine would make a perfect fit for each other.

[brreitz]

Although an adamantine shield would be cool, there's little mechanical reason to do so (it would be able to negate the hardness-penetrating ability of an adamantine weapon, that's about it).

I still intend to buy one when I someday play my Captain Andoran character.

[mplindustries]

It'd also be able to bypass DR X/Adamantine when shield bashing

[goodwicki]

It really is fairly useful for a shield bash character, not only for DR but for bashing down doors as well. I've always priced it as a weapon.

[Tarma]

Thanks everyone! What if you wanted to make a tower shield out of Adamantine?

[Protoman]

My "Captain Andoran" character for PFS bought one for level 3. I love it. There's plenty of things that have hardness or DR/adamantine to fight. Plus who needs a key when one can just break the lock if stealth isn't a big issue? :D

[Blueluck]

Tarma wrote:

Thanks everyone! What if you wanted to make a tower shield out of Adamantine?

Tower shields are usually made of wood. A metal one would way around 700 pounds.

Steel Plate Weight Calculator

[Protoman]

In Races of Stone (3.5 book), there's a steel tower shield for 75 gp that weighed 100 lbs.

[Ashram]

Back in the 3.5 FAQ, adamantine shields were addressed as such: If you're making it as a shield and not a weapon it costs as much as adamantine light armor, A.K.A. 5,000 gp. Take that as you will.

And Protoman hit the mark, there is a steel tower shield that has an unrealistic weight to metal ratio, as all weapons and armor do in this game. >.> I've thought about doing a paladin who uses an adamantine tower shield with the 3.5 augment crystal that increases hardness.

[blackbloodtroll]

You can still have a darkwood tower shield, and it weighs half as much.