Guarding Cloak (Magic Cloak)

This garment is identical in weight, texture, and appearance to a normal woollen cloak, and is typically gray in color. When it is worn and the user is struck by a physical blow, the cloak instantly becomes rigid at the point of impact, deflecting all nonmagical missiles and absorbing some of the force from any other physical attack (-2 to damage, down to a minimum of one point of damage per die). After the attack has landed and withdrawn, the cloak instantly becomes flexible again.
If a cloak of guarding is subjected to constriction or sustained pressure (as in a deadfall trap, or when caught between two walls that are closing together), the garment protects a wearer in the manner of a rigid suit of armor until it has suffered 25 points of damage, whereupon it disintegrates. A cloak of guarding that is damaged in this fashion cannot bestow its powers of protection upon a wearer again until it has rested for a number of rounds equal to the number of points of damage it has absorbed, or until it is taken offend not worn for at least one round. The construction of a cloak of guarding (which involves metal spun into fine threads) is such that the wearer will take maximum damage, no saving throw permitted, from heat, cold, or electrical attacks of all sorts. The cloak itself cannot burn. 
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Category:Magic Items
Category:Magic Cloaks