Bramble Buckler [CARD] (Patreon)

Armor (shield), rare (requires attunement)

A metal buckler decorated with a prominent rose. Magically-hardened vines weave around its rim sporting sharp thorns.

Prickly Snare. When a creature takes the disengage action within 5 feet of you, you can use your reaction to make a melee weapon attack against the target with this shield. If you are proficient with shields, you can add your proficiency bonus to this attack which deals an amount of piercing damage equal to 1d6 + your Strength modifier. On a hit, the creature's speed becomes 0 for the rest of the turn.

Storm of Thorns. As an action you can throw this shield at a point within 60 feet of you and have it explode in a flurry of spinning thorns. Each creature in a 20-foot radius of the point must make a DC 15 Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, a creature takes 3d8 piercing damage, or half as much on a successful save. The thorns turn the area of effect into difficult terrain until the end of your next turn.

If the point at which the shield was thrown was within 30 feet of you, it automatically flies back to you and returns to your hand. Once you use this property it can't be used again until you finish a short or long rest.

The young knight steadied herself as yet another warrior crumpled to the ground before her. Blood stained the earth round her like petals from a rose as she stood amidst the carnage, slick from head to toe in crimson. As her bloody fingers gripped an even bloodier shield, the remaining foes who could see her lips crack into an unnerving grin.