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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Malin Genie" data-source="post: 194706" data-attributes="member: 1058">It seems like the fact that a Tower Shield provides cover rather than a shield AC bonus leads to some interesting situations (or should I say abuses...)Use Tower Shield to give yourself 50% cover.  Grapple the opponent.  Sure, your attack roll is at -4, but it's a touch attack, and far more importantly they don't get an AoO against you.  Use Toewr Shield to give yourself 50% cover, then Bull Rush opponent.  Same as above (no AoO) - but you don't even make an attack roll to Bull Rush.Walk right past an opponent without taking an AoO, then hit his buddy with no attack penalty!OOOOBOOOOTOOOOATOOOOOTOOOOOTOO(in the diagram above, A and B are opponents, and T is the path taken by the character with the tower shield.  A towe shield only covers half the battlefield at any time, so in the above example the shield is oriented 'left', providing up to total cover against A but none against B - which is to the attacking character's advantage.)Can anyone tell me - what does a +1 tower shield do?  Does it provide a +1 AC bonus and its regular cover bonus?  DOes it provide the character with 1 pt more cover than the opponent?  Or other?</blockquote>