Prd wrote:
"Covering Defense (Combat)
You are skilled at protecting yourself and your allies with your shield.
Prerequisites: Shield Focus, base attack bonus +6.
Benefit: When you use the total defense action while using a light, heavy, or tower shield, you can provide a cover bonus to AC against all attacks to an adjacent ally your size or smaller. This cover bonus is equal to your shield’s shield bonus and lasts until the beginning of your next turn. your shield does not provide a cover bonus to reflex saves."
So, my questions are: 1) is the character using this feat able to provide a cover bonus to ALL adjacent allies of appropriate size? In other words, If two or more allies, adjacent to the defender, are attacked with separate attacks during the round, will they all get the cover bonus? The feat doesn't specifically limit it to ONE ally. 2) If not, then do you have to pre-select the protected character, or after you give a cover bonus to the first ally, it is used up for the round?
To partially answer my own question, I see that it would at least protect ONE ally against MULTIPLE attacks.
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Let's tack a couple more questions on here about covering defense.
1. When covering an ally does the ally still get to perform AoO's?
I would think this is obviously yes, but would like confirmation.
2. What if the ally you are covering moves on his turn, but still stays in an adjacent square?
He stays adjacent (required for skill to work) and is still your ally so nothing has technically changed. In addition, gameplay wise it is easily visualizable to say the ally moves around to the other side and the total defense guy shifts his shield to cover that side.
It is just a single ally as the text says and the others have said.
1. It does not preclude the ally from taking attacks of opportunity just you as you have to be total defense to activate it.
2. Is he still an adjacent ally your size or smaller, then, yes, he would still gain the benefit.
1. Are you concerned because of this rule ? "Cover and Attacks of Opportunity: You can't execute an attack of opportunity against an opponent with cover relative to you." If so, I don't see how it applies to your ally, because while you're providing him a cover bonus, that bonus only applies to attacks against him, not attacks made BY him. This cover is not reciprocal.
If both characters have the feat and use full defense do the bonuses stack?
If both characters have the feat and use full defense do the bonuses stack?
Both would get a +4 cover bonus, each from the other. If somehow they were getting a cover bonus from something else (say, actual cover) cover bonuses do not stack.