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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thanee" data-source="post: 1945533" data-attributes="member: 478">With total cover they surely mean to duck behind the shield, set on the ground. Unfortunately, there is no action for it, as far as I know.          I would use a move action to "set down the tower shield". Seems appropriate.     Also a move action to make it ready for normal use again...    Or in other words... use the ready or loose a shield action as a guideline.     You wouldn't be able to do anything, which need line of sight (or both hands, as one is used to hold the shield), if the line of sight would go through the shield (see below). Anything else seems fine, like spellcasting, drinking a potion, etc.          About the facing, while there is no facing, there are directions.      I would just declare one border of your square to be covered by the shield. You have total cover against all attacks, which go through that border only.      To measure this, use the rules for cover... if ALL lines drawn from the chosen corner (see cover rules) go through that border (or touch it), you would have total cover. If ANY ONE line goes through that border, you have normal cover (but the shield's bonus does NOT apply, as you cannot move it - only important for magical shields).          Well, that's how I'd do it intuitively. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />          Bye     Thanee</blockquote>

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