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Lantern Shield
🕑 Added 2021-03-24 16:16:00 +0000 UTCLantern Shield
Armor (shield), very rare
This bizarre buckler has a lantern, a gauntlet, defensive spikes, and a short sword built into it. You must wear the gauntlet in order to wield it, and it only grants a +1 bonus to AC. The bullseye lantern concealed within the shield casts bright light in a 60-foot cone and dim light for an additional 60 feet. Once lit, it burns for 6 hours on a flask (1 pint) of oil. The aperture that sheds light through the shield can be opened or closed with a bonus action while wearing the gauntlet, instantly igniting or extinguishing the lantern.
While the lantern is covered and you are attacked in darkness by a creature within 60 feet of you that is also in darkness, you can reveal the light (no action required) to momentarily blind the attacker, imposing disadvantage on the attack. A creature cannot be blinded in this way again for 24 hours.
If a creature within 5 feet of you misses you with a melee attack, you can use your reaction to deal 1d4 piercing damage to the attacker with the shield’s defensive spikes.
Additionally, the shield has a shortsword built into it that can be wielded while wearing the gauntlet. You can deploy or retract it with a bonus action. You have a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls with this shortsword and you are proficient with this weapon if you are proficient with shields. Attacks with this weapon are made with disadvantage if you are holding a weapon without the light property, or an object longer than 1 foot or heavier than 5 pounds in your gauntlet hand.
This contraption is, without question, Geraldine Bucklerbuilder’s strangest buckler to date. A masterful feat of engineering, she managed to incorporate a plethora of useful and surprising tools into a single shield. Determined to craft the ultimate piece of adventuring gear, she had to be talked down from tacking on a flamethrower, grappling hook launcher, spyglass, and bedpan.
