enchanting haste spell

[Tori1332]

In the gurps magic book its written that hast can be enchanted into a jewellery. I wanted to know what qualifies as a jewellery, because i have an shield with the named possession perk and i wanted to enchant haste on it to increase my dodge while i have it equipped.

[Nereidalbel]

Jewelery is generally defined as rings, necklaces, broaches, etc. Gems on a shield are too likely to be broken to be a good choice for enchantment.

[Anthony]

A shield would not normally be considered jewelry, but the GM is free to make exceptions.

[PK]

"Jewelry" refers to wearable finery, made with precious metals and/or gems: necklaces, rings, tiaras, and such. It is a separate category from "shields," "armor," "weapons," etc. That said, the type of item listed as appropriate for a given enchantment is a suggestion. The GM always has the final say.

[The Benj]

A shield certainly isn't jewellery, but I don't think anything's going to break if you have Haste on a shield instead.

[William]

If the spell had only said "shoes," then it might have been suggesting that you needed something which had some reasonable symbolic connection to speed that could take the enchantment.

Once a spell lists generic "jewellery," I personally have no problem with a spell being enchantable into any object that is reasonably snazzy -- which a named shield would certainly qualify as. If you really want to, you could, oh, have symbols of Mercury's sandals lacquered around the border at a cost of a few hundred $, to hold the enchantment.