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With a tower shield raised you can get a greater cover bonus of +4 with a Take Cover action. This is supposed to last "until the shield is no longer raised."

How does this interact with Paragon's Guard stance? Entering this stance keeps a shield raised all of combat. It would seem that this should allow the +4 Greater Cover bonus to last for the duration of combat but this feels a little weird.

Is it necessary to repeat the Take Cover action once a round or is this really as good as it would seem?

For the Fighter the Dueling and Two Weapon Fighting styles have have a Riposte feat allowing a strike to be made against a foe that critically fails an attack roll. In addition to this there exists 'Improved Twin Riposte' which grants an additional reaction to make a Twin Riposte and which can be used even if the Fighter is not benefiting from Twin Party, the first of the three-feat chain it comes from.

Could a Sword & Board Fighter take all three feats in this chain to enable Riposting with Shield in hand? They would meet the criteria of wielding a weapon in each hand so long as they use a Shield Spike and while Twin Party would be a little bit wasted as a feat for the Fighter who will be relying on raise a shield instead of the parry action the wording of Improve Twin Riposte would seem to allow this.

Am I overlooking something in my reading or should this work?