Battlestar Brogans

Last Updated: April 12, 2020

  • Campaign: Darkness Rising
  • Price: 16,200 gp
  • Body Slot: feet
  • Caster Level: 5th
  • Aura: Faint; (DC 17) illusion/transmutation
  • Activation: — and swift (command)
  • Weight: 1 lb

    Strangely these ankle-high, tough leather re-enforced spider silk brogans are covered with small swan feathers which create a black and white spider web motif running across the footwear.

    Battlestar Brogans combine the magical properties of:

  • Slippers of Spider Climb (DMG p267 – base price = 4800 gp)
  • Acrobat Boots (MIC p67 – additional ability = 900 gp x 1.5 = +1,350 gp)
  • Quicksilver Boots (MIC p119 – additional ability = 3,500 gp x 1.5 = +5,250 gp)
  • Skirmisher Boots (MIC p136 - additional ability = 3,200 gp x 1.5 = +4,800 gp)

    When worn, Battlestar Brogans enable movement on vertical surfaces or even upside down along ceilings, leaving the wearer’s hands free. Base speed is 20 feet. Severely slippery surfaces—icy, oiled, or greased surfaces—make these slippers useless. The slippers can be used for 10 minutes per day, split up as the wearer chooses.

    This footwear grants you a +2 competence bonus on Tumble checks. This is a continuous effect and requires no activation. In addition, these boots have 3 charges, which are renewed each day at dawn. Spending 1 or more charges as a swift action grants you an enhancement bonus to your speed for 1 round.

    	1 charge: +10-foot enhancement bonus.
    	2 charges: +15-foot enhancement bonus.
    	3 charges: +20-foot enhancement bonus.
    

    Battlestar Brogans also give you the ability to flash across the battlefield with a moment’s impulse. When you activate these boots, you can move a distance up to your land speed (as if using a move action to do so). This extra movement follows all the normal rules for movement, except that you can move across water or other liquid without falling in (as long as you start and finish on solid ground). You provoke attacks of opportunity as normal for movement, though the rapidity of your travel makes your form blurry, providing concealment against such attacks. This ability functions two times per day as a swift action.

    While wearing Battlestar Brogans, you gain a +2 bonus on damage rolls when you make a skirmish attack. This is a continuous effect and requires no activation. A character without the skirmish class feature does not gain this benefit.

    In addition, you can activate Battlestar Brogans to make a single extra melee or ranged attack using your full base attack bonus. You can only activate this ability if you have already moved at least 10 feet from the space where you started your turn. Movement while mounted does not allow you to activate the boots. This benefit does not require the skirmish class feature and can be activated two times per day as a swift action.

    Battlestar Brogans are part of the Mode of the Battlestar magic item set.

    History:

  • In the early war days against the Darkness, Swan Battlestar, obtained a pair of Slippers of Spider Climb as her share of treasure.
  • Quickly realizing how important, speed and movement were on the battlefield, she enhanced the slippers every time she was able to in order to improve her offensive and defensive abilities against the Darkness.
  • The end result was the Battlestar Brogans.


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