Archives of Nethys
Source Impossible Magic pg. 17
You can flip open a book to simultaneously study and deflect attacks. When you Raise a Shield, you can raise a book you’re wielding instead of a shield. While you have a book raised, you gain a +2 circumstance bonus to AC and a +1 circumstance bonus to Recall Knowledge checks to identify creatures using a skill related to the subject of the book (Arcana if you’re using your spellbook). If consulting the book normally grants an item bonus to the check for consulting the book, you gain this bonus as well.
If you have Shield Block, you can use a raised tome for that feat as though it were a shield. The tome has Hardness 3, HP 12, and BT 6.
In addition, you can inscribe the reinforcing rune into your spellbook to strengthen your tomes, using the same process as transferring a rune. The rune takes the form of a specialized diagram in your spellbook, occupying one page. The rune’s benefits apply to any one tome in your possession chosen during your daily preparations. If your spellbook leaves your possession, the rune-granting benefit is suppressed until you get the book back.
Raise a Tome Leads To...
Shielded TomeShelyn's Corner
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