Item: Sturdy Neck Stock
This thick piece of leather decorated with purple threads makes an attractive necktie but also serves a functional purpose: protecting the neck from hits that you don't see coming. You gain a +1 circumstance bonus to AC against attacks while Off Guard from flanking.
Activate—Stretch out Stock 1 (concentrate)
Frequency once per day
Effect The sturdy neck stock expands to cover not only your neck but also your shoulders and the back of your head. For 1 minute, you aren't off-guard to Hidden, undetected, or flanking creatures, or creatures using surprise attack of your level or lower.
Trait Effects
Invested: A character can invest only 10 magical items that have the invested trait. None of the magical effects of the item apply if the character hasn’t invested it, nor can it be activated, though the character still gains any normal benefits from wearing the physical item (like a hat keeping rain off their head).
Magical: Something with the magical trait is imbued with magical energies not tied to a specific tradition of magic. Some items or effects are closely tied to a particular tradition of magic. In these cases, the item has the arcane, divine, occult, or primal trait instead of the magical trait. Any of these traits indicate that the item is magical.
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