Worn Items
Pathfinder Core Rulebook (Second Edition), page 603
This section includes magic items you wear. Most have the invested trait, which means you can wear no more than 10 (page 531). Worn items include the following subcategories, with special rules appearing at the start of the section.
- Apex Items** on this page.
- Companion Items** on page 604.
- Other Worn Items** on page 604.
Apex Items
When you Invest an Item that has the apex trait, it improves one of your ability scores, either increasing it by 2 or to a total of 18, whichever grants the higher score. This gives you all the benefits of the new ability score until the investiture runs out: increasing Intelligence lets you become trained in an additional skill and learn a new language, increasing Constitution gives you more Hit Points, and so on.
An apex item grants this benefit only the first time it’s invested within a 24-hour period, and you can benefit from only one apex item at a time. If you attempt to invest an apex item when you already have one invested, you don’t gain the ability score increase, though you do gain any other effects of Investing the Item.
Companion Items
You might want to acquire items that benefit an animal or beast that assists you. These items have the companion trait, meaning they function only for animal companions, familiars, and similar creatures. If it’s unclear whether a creature can benefit from such an item, the GM decides.
Investing Companion Items
Any worn companion item needs to be invested. However, your companion needs to invest it rather than you doing so. This requires you to use the Invest an Item activity alongside your companion. A companion has an investiture limit of two items (instead of the 10-item limit a player character has).
Other Worn Items
These are a wide variety of items you wear. Armor appears in its own section on page 555, and apex items that can increase ability scores are on page 603.
| Item | Category | Level | Price | Bulk | Usage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anklets of Alacrity | Worn Items | 17 | 15,000 gp | — | worn anklets |
| Belt of Giant Strength | Worn Items | 17 | 15,000 gp | L | worn belt |
| Belt of Regeneration | Worn Items | 17 | 15,000 gp | L | worn belt |
| Circlet of Persuasion | Worn Items | 17 | 15,000 gp | — | worn circlet |
| Diadem of Intellect | Worn Items | 17 | 15,000 gp | L | worn circlet |
| Headband of Inspired Wisdom | Worn Items | 17 | 15,000 gp | — | worn circlet |
| Barding of the Zephyr | Worn Items | 10 | 900 gp | L | worn barding |
| Collar of Empathy | Worn Items | 9 | 600 gp | 1 | worn collar (companion) and worn bracelet (you) |
| Horseshoes of Speed | Worn Items | 7 | 340 gp | 1 | worn horseshoes |
| Aeon Stone | Worn Items | 1 | 325 gp | — | worn |
| Alchemist Goggles | Worn Items | 4 | 100 gp | — | worn eyepiece |
| Armbands of Athleticism | Worn Items | 9 | 645 gp | L | worn armbands |
| Belt of the Five Kings | Worn Items | 9 | 650 gp | L | worn belt |
| Berserker’s Cloak | Worn Items | 12 | 2,000 gp | 1 | worn cloak |
| Boots of Bounding | Worn Items | 7 | 340 gp | L | worn shoes |
| Boots of Elvenkind | Worn Items | 5 | 145 gp | L | worn shoes |
| Boots of Speed | Worn Items | 13 | 3,000 gp | L | worn shoes |
| Bracelet of Dashing | Worn Items | 3 | 58 gp | L | worn |
| Bracers of Armor | Worn Items | 8 | 450 gp | L | worn bracers |
| Bracers of Missile Deflection | Worn Items | 3 | 52 gp | L | worn bracers |
| Brooch of Shielding | Worn Items | 2 | 30 gp | — | worn |
| Cape of the Mountebank | Worn Items | 10 | 980 gp | L | worn cloak |
| Cassock of Devotion | Worn Items | 11 | 1,150 gp | L | worn garment |