Talk:Aegis (3.5e Equipment)

This is pretty hard to balance.

Tying the effect into the hardness of the shield may not be the best of ideas since hardness goes up by 2 with every point of enhancement bonus. With a +5 adamantine aegis shield (that's just 51k gold) that's a base hardness of 30. Then, there are several ultra hard materials in the homebrew section (fodinan diamond for one with a hardness of 30, and some even higher) that would make you hard to beat in any cramped space. With several ways and spells for upping material hardness, I can see it being pretty easy to become nigh-unstoppable from a specific direction. --Sulacu (talk) 18:48, 29 April 2017 (MDT)

I forgot to add in that Disintegrate and the other things a Wall of Force is vulnerable to also destroy the energy shield. However, the hardness is intentional, since there are many spells that lower hardness and some materials that ignore hardness less than their own; Spells also ignore hardness entirely unless it's a spell that deals bludgeoning, piercing or slashing damage. Furthermore, before I made this enchantment, I made this one, which is designed to help counter this enchantment, as well as things like the Astral Shield racial trait. The shield's HP will eventually run out, and considering it blocks spell and attacks passing through it from both directions, and the user can't attack while the shield is active, it's meant to give you and your allies a wall to hide behind temporarily, not to create a roving bunker of destruction by turning your party into a tank. Zhenra-Khal (talk) 01:14, 30 April 2017 (MDT)

Since you used the mechanics from my shield article I was under the impression that the shield's hardness functioned like hard shields do, in which case everything that the shield stops would be reduced by it. If that is not the case, I would note that explicitly to make things clear. --Sulacu (talk) 00:08, 1 May 2017 (MDT)

Actually, I've already done so. Zhenra-Khal (talk) 08:11, 1 May 2017 (MDT)