Battlecaster's Robes (3.5e Equipment)

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These armored golden robes of resplendent orichalcum-gilded weave greatly enhance a spellcaster's prowess in combat.

Battlecaster's Robes (Medium)

Size	Humanoid Cost	Nonhumanoid Cost	Armor Bonus	Weight	Hit Points
Small	6500 gp	13000 gp	+4	17.5 lb.	10
Medium	6500 gp	13000 gp	+4	35 lb.	10

Non-Standard Sizes
Fine	3250 gp	6500 gp	+0	3.5 lb.	10
Diminutive	3250 gp	6500 gp	+0	3.5 lb.	10
Tiny	3250 gp	6500 gp	+0	3.5 lb.	10
Large	13000 gp	26000 gp	+4	70 lb.	10
Huge	26000 gp	52000 gp	+4	175 lb.	10
Gargantuan	52000 gp	104000 gp	+4	280 lb.	10
Colossal	104000 gp	208000 gp	+4	420 lb.	10

Maximum Dex Bonus	Armor Check Penalty	Arcane Spell Failure	Hardness
+3	-6	0%	1

Speed
Base	20 ft.	30 ft.	40 ft.	50 ft.	60 ft.	70 ft.	80 ft.	90 ft.	100 ft.
Armored	15 ft.	20 ft.	30 ft.	35 ft.	40 ft.	50 ft.	55 ft.	60 ft.	70 ft.

Don	Don Hastily	Remove
1 minute	5 rounds	1 minute1
If the character has some help, cut this time in half. A single character doing nothing else can help one or two adjacent characters. Two characters can't help each other don armor at the same time.

Employed by the most elite battlemage units from the theocratic kingdoms of the Azarro continent, these robes, reinforced with a lining of orichalcum scales, turn any accomplished spellcaster into a force to be reckoned with. Perhaps emboldened by the defenses indwelling the battlecaster's robe, its wearer is allowed to fully focus on their magic with impunity. However, as far as robes go, they are undeniably heavy and impeding. The battlecaster's armor is always masterwork; price and benefits are subsumed in the above statistics.

The battlecaster's robes grant the following benefits when worn, on top of their general protective capabilities:

• The battlecaster's robes count as a masterwork Concentration skill tool.
• Orichalcum traits: You gain spell resistance equal to your effective character level plus the robes' armor bonus to AC, and spells that enhance armor have +4 to their caster level and twice their duration when cast on the robes. Though the robes have no arcane spell failure chance, the penalties to its maximum Dexterity bonus to AC and its penalty are already accounted for above.
• You gain a personal shield that is powered by the residual magical power you give off. The shield has maximum hit points equal to your highest caster level. While the shield has 1 or more hit points, it prevents you from being critically hit, stunned or staggered. This shield does not recharge over time, but rather regains hit points automatically while you cast spells, at a rate of 2 hit points per spell level. Wearing the robes while meditating, preparing or praying for spells recharges the shield fully.

Battlecaster's robes can be enhanced with magic, though at four times the base price of magical enhancement. Magically enhanced battlecaster's robes grant the following additional benefits:

• You gain a bonus to Concentration checks equal to the robe's enhancement bonus.
• While your personal shield has at least 1 hit point, you gain a deflection bonus to AC equal to the robe's enhancement bonus.
• Your personal shield gains hardness equal to 2 points per point of enhancement bonus (see Hard Shields).

Craft (tailoring and armorsmithing) DC 32. Market Price 6,500 gp.

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