Clandestine Plate [CARD] (Patreon)

Armor (breastplate, half plate, or plate), very rare (requires attunement)

This hefty collapsable armor harbors technology that did not originate from the prehistoric dwarven mines in which it was found. While wearing this armor you gain an additional +2 bonus to your AC. This item has 12 charges and regains all charges after a long rest. Whenever you take 10 or more lightning damage from a single source while wearing this armor it regains a charge.

Interlocking Configuration. You can use an action to speak the command word to don or doff this armor as it shrinks or expands instantly according to your command. While shrunk this armor takes the form of a simple piece of jewelry or a belt, the form of which you can decide.

Covert Firepower. As a bonus action you can either prime or holster the hidden cannon armed on the shoulder of this armor. If the cannon is primed, as an attack you can spend a charge to fire it. Firing the cannon replicates the effects of the Magic Missile spell dealing radiant damage instead of the normal force damage.

Bunker Bubble. As an action you can spend 4 charges to generate a 10-foot-radius force field centered on you for up to 10 minutes. The field follows you for the duration and you must maintain concentration on this property as though concentrating on a spell. You can choose to end this effect at any time, no action required. While this force field is active creatures within the field have half cover against ranged attacks made from outside the bubble. Creatures can pass freely through the bubble.

The interlocking plates that make up this armor depict a long-forgotten history of dwarvenkind; an era when mysterious many-limbed figures dominated the stout beings carved in gold and steel, a reminder of darker times. Any combatant that bears the weight of such history upon their body finds themselves empowered by means from beyond this world, raining heavy fire upon their foes whilst shielding their allies from retaliation. And though today those of dwarven persuasion are considered one with the earth, the existence of such artifacts begs the question: perhaps it was not the dwarves’ own nature that drove them to the mines deep below?