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Call of Duty – A Paladin’s Sourcebook: Chapter 4: New Magic for the market price. This price is added to the cost of the item.) Mount Sanctum: A mount sanctum enhancement can only be placed upon steel shields larger than bucklers. Paladins with special mounts holding such shields immediately learn of this ability. While the paladin is dismounted, their special mount can leap into the shield as a move equivalent action, passing into a special pocket dimension where time does not pass, as if in a temporal stasis spell. The shield immediately displays an intricate engraving resembling the paladin’s mount. No other types of creatures may enter a mount sanctum shield, and only one special mount may be inside such a shield at a time. The paladin can recall the mount as a move equivalent action, as long as he wields the shield and there is enough room for the mount in the area. The mount leaps out of the shield, and the engraving disappears. The mount can enter the shield and be recalled any number of times per day. If a mount sanctum shield is destroyed while a special mount is inside, that mount immediately returns unharmed by the event, as long as there is room for the mount in the area. If there is no room for the mount, such as if the shield is destroyed while in a very small room, the mount is also destroyed and never seen again. Bucklers are too small for this enhancement. A small shield can store a Medium-sized mount, a large shield can store up to a Large-sized mount, and a tower shield can store a mount of up to Huge size. Paladins calling their special mounts sometimes find mount sanctum shields instead, with the mount of a long dead paladin waiting within. Such a mount is willing to serve its new master, but may be concerned about its old one, and may have old-fashioned sensibilities if it has been in stasis for a long time. Shields may not have both a divine mark and a mount sanctum enhancement. Caster Level: 5 th , Prerequisites: Craft Magic Arms and Armor, sanctuary; Market Price: +6,000gp 60 Turn or Rebuke Caster Market Undead Bonus Level Price +0 6 th +300gp +2 10 th +3,000gp +4 14 th +12,000gp +6 18 th Table 4-1, Divine Mark +24,000gp Shining: This enhancement can only be placed on metallic armor polished to a mirror-like finish, such as banded mail, breastplate, half-plate, or plate mail armor. Anyone wearing shining armor has a –5 circumstance penalty to Hide skill checks. When worn by a paladin, shining armor grants a +2 enhancement bonus to Charisma. Caster Level: 10 th , Prerequisites: Craft Magic Arms and Armor, enthrall; Market Price: +5,000gp New Specific Magical Armor Crescent Shield: Crescent shields were forged for a remote paladin order constantly under attack by hostile werewolves. Images of howling wolves often adorn these silvery, crescent moon-shaped shields. The shields are the enemy of lycanthropes everywhere. The shield is normally a small shield +2, but in the hands of someone with a lawful good alignment who is immune to lycanthropy (usually a paladin), it instead has a +5 enhancement bonus instead against the attacks of lycanthropes. Such a wielder can also force a lycanthrope to change involuntarily back to its original shape up to 3 times per day by using a command word. The lycanthrope must make a Control Shape skill check at DC 25 to resist. (See the MM: Appendix 3: Templates, Lycanthropes). The shield is mirror-like in appearance, and if anyone looks closely, the true form of a shapechanger can be seen in its reflection. It is a move equivalent action to look at the reflection of someone in the shield. Both the viewer and the target must be within 30ft. of the shield, and there must be adequate lighting. Caster Level: 15 th , Prerequisites: Craft Magic Arms and Armor, true seeing; Market Price: 20,000gp. New Weapon Special Abilities Note that righteous, holy or holy burst weapons cannot also be blasphemous, unholy, or unholy burst. The first three are “good” aligned weapons; the last three are “evil” aligned weapons. Righteous: A righteous weapon is a weaker type of holy weapon. This special ability functions the same as the holy ability in the DMG, except it causes only +1d6 holy (good) damage when striking evil creatures. A weapon can only have one of the following special abilities: righteous, holy, or holy burst.
Caster Level: 5 th ; Prerequisites: Craft Magic Arms and Armor, consecrate; Market Price: +1 bonus Holy Burst: A holy burst weapon is a holy weapon (+2d6 holy damage to evil creatures) that also stuns evil creatures for one round on a critical hit. A weapon can only have one of the following special abilities: righteous, holy, or holy burst. Caster Level: 12 th ; Prerequisites: Craft Magic Arms and Armor, holy smite; Market Price: +3 bonus Blasphemous: A blasphemous weapon is a weaker type of unholy weapon. This special ability functions the same as the unholy ability in the DMG, except it causes only +1d6 unholy (evil) damage when striking good creatures. A weapon can only have one of the following special abilities: blasphemous, unholy, or unholy burst. Caster Level: 5 th ; Prerequisites: Craft Magic Arms and Armor, desecrate; Market Price: +1 bonus Unholy Burst: An unholy burst weapon is a unholy weapon (+2d6 unholy damage to good creatures) that also stuns good creatures for one round on a critical hit. A weapon can only have one of the following special abilities: blasphemous, unholy, or unholy burst. Caster Level: 12 th ; Prerequisites: Craft Magic Arms and Armor, unholy blight; Market Price: +3 bonus New Specific Magical Weapons Dulan’s Surprise: Dulan was a paladin who favored mounted combat over all else. He charged carelessly into battle with this lance, which he named Dulan’s Charge, and ultimately met his doom when attacking a line of elite hobgoblin pikemen. The hobgoblins ransomed the lance to a temple, where a mysterious warrior stole it. The warrior had the famous lance magically enhanced to become a tattoo, so that he could smuggle it around without suspicion. The lance became known as Dulan’s Surprise for the way the warrior would activate it while charging. The temple never caught the thief, who owned the lance until he died years later in a tavern brawl. The current location of the lance is unknown. This righteous heavy lance +3 is engraved with the image of a cavalry charge against some indistinguishable dark foe. The lance grants anyone wielding it a +10 competence bonus to his or her Ride skill. Once per round, on command as a free action, the lance transforms into a large tattoo on the wielder’s body or back to a lance. If the wearer dies while the lance is in tattoo form, Call of Duty – A Paladin’s Sourcebook: Chapter 4: New Magic the lance reforms next to the body. Caster Level: 12th; Prerequisites: Craft Magic Arms and Armor, consecrate, shrink item, speak with animals, creator must be of good alignment; Market Price: 44,310 gp; Cost to Create: 22,310 gp + 1,760 XP. Newal’s Vengeance: This blade was originally a long sword +1 called Newal’s Folly. Newal’s Vengeance has a rippled appearance to the blade and a bronze plated hilt. This weapon was one of many such swords forged by a local wizard to help repel a gnoll invasion of the Brighton villages 30 years ago. Newal, a brave squire, fought valiantly with the blade but was slain when he refused to flee the overwhelming numbers of gnolls. A gnoll chieftain wielded the blade until adventurers recovered it. The blade was lost again when they never returned from a dungeon expedition. Years later a temple built near the massacred villages was given the sword as a donation by a mysterious wanderer, and the clerics have enhanced it to be a worthy weapon of good. It is now a holy gnoll-bane long sword +3, and vibrates slightly whenever a gnoll is within 60ft. Fear of the temple and the sword has kept the gnolls away, but rumor has it that the sword is missing again, so the gnolls may yet return. Caster Level: 12th; Prerequisites: Craft Magic Arms and Armor, detect evil, holy smite, summon monster I creator must be of good alignment; Market Price: 100,315 gp; Cost to Create: 50,315 gp + 4,000 XP. Pinnacle: Pinnacle is more than a weapon; it is a powerful NPC. It cannot remember its ancient beginnings, but is very wise. Pinnacle prefers to be used by higher level paladins, (16 th level +), but its purpose is to protect all paladins and it may serve a lower level one for a short time before convincing or forcing them to give the blade up. Its personality can be thought of as fatherly or motherly. Instead of pressing paladins on into great danger, it urges wisdom, restraint, and careful planning. It never encourages cowardice, but always questions its wielder if his intentions seem rash. Pinnacle seems to speak with an ancient accent of whatever language its wielder speaks, and never uses contractions or a simple word when a complex one will work. Pinnacle has been destroyed many times, but seems to be a favored weapon of the gods. It always mysteriously returns to the mortal realm, usually after several years. It theorizes that 61
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