Shield Amulet

Shield Amulet is an amulet which has 50 charges when full charged. When a charge is used it will set the armor class to 4 and offers +2 protection against missile weapons, similiar to the spell Shield. This item appears in Baldur's Gate, Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition and Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn.

In Baldur's Gate, this amulet sold by one of the merchants at the Nashkel Carnival.

In-game description
"This Amulet can be activated by a simple command word and a touch with each use acting as one charge. The effect is a duplication of the 1st level wizard spell 'Shield'. For the duration of the spell, the wearer will have a base Armor Class of 4. This is cumulative with any modifiers due to shields and magical devices."