Wall Of Titanic Covetousness (Patreon)

Armor (shield), artifact (requires attunement)

An opulent golden shield emblazoned with the embodiment of greed, featuring a small slot at its center. While holding this shield you gain a +3 bonus to your AC. This shield has 10 charges and regains 1d10+1 charges after a long rest. As an action you can insert gold pieces into the slot of this shield which regains 1 charge for every 1000 gold pieces inserted.

While attuned to this shield you can sense the presence of all gold within 100 feet of you which is surrounded by bright yellow aura even if it is hidden or behind an obstacle that would block your vision.

Too Big to Fail. You can cast one of the following spells (spell save DC 17) by expending the necessary number of charges: Distort Value (1 charge), Incite Greed (3 charges), Secret Chest (4 charges), Find the Path (6 charges).

Charitable Donation. As a bonus action you can insert gold pieces into the slot of this shield and gain a barrier of protection. If you do, you gain 1 temporary hit point for every 10 gold pieces inserted into the shield to a maximum of 25. While you have these temporary hit points you are immune to being charmed as an aura of avarice keeps your mind from outside influence.

Bailout. When you take damage, you can use your reaction to spend 3 charges to force a creature within 30 feet of you to make a contested Charisma check. If the chosen creature is a friendly creature, it makes this check with disadvantage. If you succeed, the chosen creature takes the damage instead, and suffers any additional effects.

Curse: Unethical Consumption. This shield is cursed. Attuning it curses you until you die or the shield is destroyed. Each day you must feed this shield a debt of 50 gold pieces (gold pieces fed to this shield as part of the Charitable Donation property do not count towards this debt). Each day you do not pay the debt, your hit point maximum decreases by 10 (3d6) and the debt increases by 50 gold pieces for every 24 hours that elapse (ex. 50 gold on the first day, 100 gold on the second day, etc.). Once you have paid the total debt your hit point maximum is restored. If this curse reduces your hit point maximum to 0, you immediately die.

If you die while attuned to this shield you can be restored to life only by a Wish spell.

Destroying the Shield. To destroy this shield you must give away 100 gold pieces to another creature without receiving anything in return every day for one year. If you do so, this shield crumbles into ashes and is destroyed, and all of the gold it has eaten is released.

"Greed is good." The hallowed chorus of those devoted body and soul to the Golden Swine, herald of riches and bringer of demise. A being born of an emotion so base and primal that to deny him is to deny the nature of our very world. All who succumb to his beckoning song are subservient to his whims forever more, blind to the pain and destruction left in his wake. With each wicked offering upon his altar, he feasts eternal upon his infinite hoard of riches and bones.