Item: Dragon's Crest
This variant on the shield boss is usually shaped like a dragon's head, its jaws open wide enough to wedge a small vessel of liquid within. A dragon's crest can be etched with weapon runes, much like a shield boss or shield spikes, but doesn't otherwise alter your shield's statistics. A shield bearing a dragon's crest can't be combined with an attached weapon, like shield spikes.
You can use an Interact action to wedge an alchemical bomb into the crest's jaws. While a bomb is wedged in the shield, you take a -1 penalty to attack rolls with the shield. When you successfully Strike a creature with the shield, the vessel shatters, exposing the creature you hit-and yourself-to the substance within. This counts as a successful hit with the bomb against the creature if it's adjacent to you or a successful hit against the appropriate adjacent square if it's not. The bomb deals splash damage as normal to surrounding creatures, including you. In addition, the bomb deals full damage to the attached shield.
Critical Specialisation Effects
Certain effects can grant you benefits when you make a Strike with certain weapons and get a critical success. This is called a critical specialisation effect. The exact effect depends on which weapon group your weapon belongs to, as listed below. You can always decide not to add the critical specialisation effect of your weapon.
Shield: You knock the target back from you 5 feet.
Related Items
| Name | Level | Rarity | Price | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shield Boss | - | Common | 5 sp | 1d6 |
| Shield Spikes | - | Common | 5 sp | 1d6 |
| Acid Flask (Lesser) | 1 | Common | 3 gp | 1- |
| Alchemist's Fire (Lesser) | 1 | Common | 3 gp | 1d8 |
| Atrophy Bomb (Lesser) | 1 | Uncommon | 4 gp | 0- |
| Axe Musket | 1 | Uncommon | 10 gp | 1d6 |
| Backpack Ballista | 1 | Uncommon | 18 gp | 1d12 |
| Big Boom Gun | 1 | Uncommon | 10 gp | 1d6 |
| Bioluminescence Bomb | 1 | Uncommon | 3 gp | 0- |
| Blasting Stone (Lesser) | 1 | Common | 3 gp | 1d4 |
| Blight Bomb (Lesser) | 1 | Common | 3 gp | 1d4 |
| Blood Bomb (Lesser) | 1 | Uncommon | 4 gp | 1- |
| Boarding Pike | 1 | Uncommon | 8 sp | 1d10 |
| Bottled Lightning (Lesser) | 1 | Common | 3 gp | 1d6 |
| Combat Grapnel | 1 | Uncommon | 9 sp | 1d6 |
| Composite Longbow | 1 | Common | 20 gp | 1d8 |
| Composite Shortbow | 1 | Common | 14 gp | 1d6 |
| Double-Barreled Musket | 1 | Uncommon | 11 gp | 1d6 |
| Dread Ampoule (Lesser) | 1 | Common | 3 gp | 1d6 |
| Dueling Pistol | 1 | Uncommon | 12 gp | 1d6 |