D&D 5E How much does cover cost?

[Shades of Eternity]

How much would a Chest high wall cost in dnd 5e?

I'm mainly trying to see how easy it would be to make portable cover (1/2, 3/4 cover).

 

[aco175]

Here is the tower shield from 3e days. And a link to our own discussion from 2004.

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Cost	Armor Bonus	Weight	Speed
30 gp	**	45 lb.

Shield, tower [Shield]

Description
This massive wooden shield is nearly as tall as the wielder. Basically, it is a portable wall meant to provide cover. It can provide up to total cover, depending on how far a character comes out from behind it. A tower shield, however, does not provide cover against targeted spells; a spellcaster can cast a spell on a character by targeting the shield. A tower shield cannot be used for the shield bash action.

You can also build a wooden wall or stone wall, or iron wall I guess. I would think that hiring someone to make a wall is costing less then casting a spell such as wall of stone. It also depends on your location since you cannot build out of stone or wood if you live on the plains.

I see on DDBeyond that a rowboat costs 50gold. This might be a starting point for some sort of wooden wall with hinges that can be moved about.

 

[GMMichael]

35 silver, and a link:

 

[Hussar]

How much is a cart?

 

[GrimCo]

How much door costs? You take plain old oak wood door, saw it down a bit, add iron handle in the middle, add to small wheels on the sides. You have mobile cover.

 

[Steampunkette]

One action to flip a table or cast the Mold Earth cantrip to make an earthen berm to duck behind. At slightly higher level you can use that action to cast Stone Shape for the same purpose, if there's no dirt or tables nearby. (Though, let's be honest... your DM would probably let you flip a table as a free object interaction)

If you're high enough level you could also use Wall of Stone spell to provide a -ton- of cover to a lot of people.

 

[Sorcerers Apprentice]

Where are you fighting if you need to bring your own cover?

 

[AlViking]

It's not the cost of the raw materials, a brick wall would be cheap. The cost is in making it portable since, unlike a wartime battlefield where such things were occasionally used you don't have resources dedicated to just carrying the thing around. There are tower shields from older editions which has been mentioned, the best thing to have that could be easily deployed would be some type of magical item. Any type of cover only matters if you can keep it between you and the enemy so that's going to depend on how your GM runs the fights.

 

[MarkB]

It's not the cost of the raw materials, a brick wall would be cheap. The cost is in making it portable since, unlike a wartime battlefield where such things were occasionally used you don't have resources dedicated to just carrying the thing around. There are tower shields from older editions which has been mentioned, the best thing to have that could be easily deployed would be some type of magical item. Any type of cover only matters if you can keep it between you and the enemy so that's going to depend on how your GM runs the fights.

A door, plus a halfling hireling to hold it sideways and move it as needed. The bonus is it acts as full cover for the hireling.

 

[AlViking]

A door, plus a halfling hireling to hold it sideways and move it as needed. The bonus is it acts as full cover for the hireling.

That means the character is at least 5 feet behind the door because you can't share the same space and the halfling is toast the first time there's area of effect damage. Unless of course you're hust allowing it for comedic effect.