Tower Shield Cover and Attack

[Sorrol]

Hello,

As a Standard Action you can turn your Tower Shield to something providing cover...

If I were to take a Full-Round Action, would I be able to attack something with my other hand? Or is this option simply not possible?

Cheers,
Sorrol

[DM_Blake]

Not possible. What you're trying to get is two standard actions in the same round.

The standard action for the round is used up. You only have a move action left, which cannot attack. Trying to combine them is not supported by the rules and if it were, you would probably need to combine a move action and a standard action or two move actions, but not two standard actions.

[Sorrol]

You do realize things like Full-Round Actions allowing you to Withdraw and attack with both hands and whatnot are essentially duplicating standard actions right?

[DM_Blake]

Withdraw doesn't allow you to make any attacks.

Attacking with both hands (two weapon fighting) has its own set of rules that specifically override the general rule of having only one standard action per round - specific always overrides general.

I'm unaware of a specific rule allowing what you want so I quoted you the general rule: one standard action per round, never two, except when specific exceptions exist (which this does not seem to have).

[Abraham spalding]

However if you do somehow manage to use a tower shield for cover and can make an attack (say an AoO) you do so normally (including the -2 for using the tower shield), and your opponent does not receive any form of cover from your tower shield (unless they have some weird ability or feat that lets them get it).