A character in my Dungeon World game received a shield that was once owned by Pencast, a great warrior of the Kenedhel, the forest witch people. It’s a wooden shield with the abstract image of the face of a forest bison on it.
What are its properties beyond those of a normal shield, do you think? There is no wrong answer.
No one forest animal or other natural being will hurt owner of the shield unless provoked or attacked by him/her.
Their not get any of my money until TW: Medieval 3
The Shield of Kenedhel
Tags: forceful
When you rush an opponent and lead with your shield Roll+Str:
On a 10 – you do your damage and shift your opponent’s position (describe how you push them back, over away from)
On a 7-9 choose 1
— do your damage
— shift your opponents position
— do both but fall with your opponent
Something like that?
I likes James Sauers idea that you can shove it into the ground to make it grow into fantastic shapes. Maybe it creates a beanstalk to climb a cliffside, provides a tall tower for you to take on oncoming hordes of enemies, or anything you can think of.
When you get a critical success on a defend using the shield, roots grow from it and either entangle or disarm the attacker. James Sauers ‘ idea is also waaayyy interesting!
You can appear to others as a bison and will always be accepted into a herd.
Marshall Miller I never know how to act around herds of bison.
Summon phantasmal stampede of bison, but only at the cost of the shield (it disintegrates with the sypathetic vibrations in the earth the stampede causes).
Every one of you is awesome! Even Karl Walldorf even though I have no idea wth he is talking about.
Thinking of bison in a forest, maybe the shield lets you easily push through vegetation, no matter how dense. Maybe the forest parts and reforms behind you.
Absolutely nothing.
Kenendhel Earth Bison was a proud warrior, who believed her arm was strong enough without the witchcraft of her people.
So she built this absolutely mundane shield and walked in battle without any magic, only one of her kind to do so.
When you reveal the crest on the shield to a Kenendhel they remember Earth Bison legend and you hold 3. You can spend your hold to lead the Kenendhel into heroic battle. They will follow you.
Since I’ve been on a magic item kick lately, how about this?
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0lFq3ECDQDQUi1NOTl2RGRrc1U
Jeremy Strandberg wow, that is cool. Ezio Melega that is great!
Again, all these are cool, thanks so much for the responses.