Bracers of Armor

Weight: 1 lb.

These items appear to be wrist or arm guards. They surround the wearer with an invisible but tangible field of force, granting him an armor bonus of +1 to +8, just as though he were wearing armor. Both bracers must be worn for the magic to be effective. Because this is a force effect, it works against incorporeal touch attacks.

Table: Bracers of Armor
Enhancement Bonus	Price (gp)	Item Level	Cost to Create			Caster Level	Conjuration Aura
Enhancement Bonus	Price (gp)	Item Level	gp	XP	Days	Caster Level	Conjuration Aura
+1	1,000	4th	500	40	1	2nd	Faint; (DC 16)
+2	4,000	8th	2,000	160	4	4th	Faint; (DC 17)
+3	9,000	12th	4,500	360	9	6th	Moderate; (DC 18)
+4	16,000	14st	8,000	640	16	8th	Moderate; (DC 19)
+5	25,000	15th	12,500	1,000	25	10th	Moderate; (DC 20)
+6	36,000	17th	18,000	1,440	36	12th	Strong; (DC 21)
+7	49,000	18th	24,500	1,960	49	14th	Strong; (DC 22)
+8	64,000	18th	32,000	2,560	64	16th	Strong; (DC 23)
+9¹	81,000	18th	40,500	3,240	64	18th	Strong; (DC 24)
+10¹	100,000	20th	50,000	4,000	100	20th	Strong; (DC 23)
+11¹	121,000	22nd	60,500	4,840	121	22th	Strong; (DC 24)
+12¹	144,000	23rd	72,000	5,760	144	24th	Strong; (DC 25)
+13¹	169,000	24th	84,500	6,760	169	26th	Strong; (DC 26)
Variant rule; see Adding Armor Properties below.

Prerequisites: Craft Wondrous Item, mage armor, creator’s caster level must be at least two times that of the bonus placed in the bracers.

Cost to Create: See table.

Variant Rules

Adding Armor Properties

This rule was first introduced in the sidebar on page 130 of the version 3.0 publication, the Arms and Equipment Guide, and has been referred to in later version 3.5 publications. It allows characters with the prerequisites listed above as well as the Craft Magic Arms and Armor feat to add armor properties to bracers of armor with the following limitations:

Bracers of armor with armor properties can have a total effective bonus of +13. No more than +8 of that can be actual enhancement bonuses to AC; the rest must be armor properties.
Armor properties that have a fixed gold piece value (rather than an adjustment to effective enhancement bonus) may not be added to bracers of armor. Examples of armor properties with fixed gold piece values include aporter, called, and speed.
Armor properties can total more than +5 of effective bonus as long as the total does not exceed +13 and the bracers have at least a +1 enhancement bonus to AC. (One cannot craft bracers of armor +0 with 13 points of armor properties.)

Limited Armor Properties

This variant rule is exactly the same as Adding Armor Properties above except the total enhancement bonus is limited to +8, not +13.

Bracers of Epic Armor

For epic level bracers of armor (that is, bracers of armor with an enhancement bonus to AC greater than +8⁠—or an effective bonus of above +13 if the armor properties variant rule is being used), square the total effective bonus and multiply the result by 10,000 gp to obtain the market price. An additional prerequisite, Craft Epic Wondrous Item, is required to make bracers of epic armor.

Source: Dungeon Master’s Guide (version 3.5), page 250.