Overshield

Overshields are magical barriers that grant your character special benefits. 

Overshield is a second health bar that takes damage before your actual health. 

While you have overshield your health can only be damaged after your overshield has been removed or if an attack ignores overshield. 

• Any attack that does not break your overshield cannot apply status effects. This does not affect attacks and effects that do not deal damage or target a character’s willpower. 

Overshield is not restored by healing spells or potions and can only be restored by items, spells, or abilities that specifically grant or restore overshield.

Overshield does not benefit from the DR of the character, only its own DR. 

If you have an overshield, gaining a new overshield replaces your current one if the new one is larger or has a different effect than your current one. 

Gaining a new overshield does not restore or stack on top of your existing overshield.

Overshields that do not grant additional health instead last until the conditions listed are met, however they still count as as an overshield and are lost if a new overshield is gained