Greetings Playgrounders! I, a humble noob to D&D, doth so require your mastery of RAW:
This cloak, if I read it right, gives wearers immunity to nonmagical weapons and makes all magic weapon damage reflex/half damage.
SpoilerStarmantle Cloak (BOED 116): This draping black cloak turns into a
sparkling mantle of tiny, cascading stars when worn. The cloak
sheds light as a torch, renders the wearer impervious to nonmagical
weapon attacks, and transforms any nonmagical
weapon or missile that strikes the wearer into harmless light,
destroying it. Contact with the starmantle does not destroy
magic weapons or missiles, but the starmantle’s wearer is entitled
to a DC 15 Reflex save each time he is struck by such a weapon;
success indicates that the wearer takes only half damage from
the attack.
Moderate abjuration; CL 11th; Craft Wondrous Item, starmantle;
Price 132,000 gp; Weight 1 lb.
I plan to abuse this item with evasion so that I never take damage from weapons again, and this appears (to my perception) perfectly RAW legal.
Butonetwo things bug me about it:
First: does "nonmagical/magical weapons" in this case include natural weapons/attacks? And if so, does it include unarmed strikes as well?
Further: It "turns any nonmagical weapon or missile that strikes the wearer into harmless light, destroying it". So, if a creature were to strike a wearer with claws or a bite attack, what would happen? Would it lose its claws? its mouth?
What about unarmed strikes? Would swordsages/monks lose their fists and feet trying to hit this thing?