Price (Item Level): 25,000 gp (15th)
Body Slot: Torso
Caster Level: 9th
Aura: Moderate; (DC 19) abjuration
Activation: — (see text)
Weight: 1 lb.
This vest is made from black silk, and the buttons are shards of stone chipped from a stone golem. Both buttons and vest are inscribed with runes that are also used in the rituals of golem creation. The silk is soft to the touch, and its sheen never grows dull.
Daazzix’s vest functions only for a creature that already possesses spell resistance, either from an innate ability (such as drow have) or from another magic item (such as a mantle of spell resistance). Once it is donned by such a creature, the vest is always active. If the wearer loses his other source of spell resistance (for example, if his mantle of spell resistance is destroyed or suppressed), he immediately loses the benefit of Daazzix’s vest as well.
Daazzix’s vest increases the wearer’s existing spell resistance by 5.
Lore: Characters can gain the following pieces of information about Daazzix’s vest by making Knowledge (history) or Knowledge (dungeoneering) checks at the appropriate DCs, as given below.
DC 20: The first Daazzix’s vest was created by a drow wizard fearful of his mistress’s wrath. Daazzix created the vest in the hopes of overthrowing his tyrannical sisters.
DC 30: To aid his innate defenses against his sisters’ divine magic, Daazzix crafted the vest and arrogantly named it after himself. Unfortunately, while the vest saved him from their magic, he failed to calculate the effects their maces would have on his head.
Prerequisites: Craft Wondrous Item, spell resistance.
Cost to Create: 12,500 gp, 1,000 XP, 25 days.
Source: Dungeon Master’s Guide II, page 267.