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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elder-Basilisk" data-source="post: 233276" data-attributes="member: 3146">I've seen clerics use tower shields to provide cover (and therefore AoO immunity) while they heal their companions.The Sage had a pretty clumsy diagram a while back that made tower shields directional--much like the shield spell. Unfortunately, adding directionality to the tower shield makes the situation immeasurably more complicated tactically. If your DM is foolish enough to rule that way, you could abuse it, attacking at 50% cover and then moving the shield to provide 75% cover or even taking a 5 foot step so that the shield provided no cover to your opponent, attacking and then rotating the shield to provide 75% cover. Unfortunately, your opponents will then be able to take 5 foot steps to attack you when you only get 50% cover. As I said, this ruling adds a lot of unnecessary complexity.For the sake of completeness the diagram works as follows:d=Defender7=Defender has 75% cover against attacks from this square5=Defender has 50% cover against attacks from this squarex=Defender has no cover against attacks from this squareXXXXX  XXXX5XXDXX  XXD55X575X  XX57757775  X5577</blockquote>