Tower Shield toppling.

[prototype00]

So say a fighter raises and takes cover behind a Tower Shield as stated in the rules for +4 AC. Can the enemy right in front of him just move 10ft and stab him in the side without the cover bonus (even though the Tower Shield rules don’t specify this as one of the conditions for losing the Cover bonus) or can you just move the shield around to block and keep the +4 Cover bonus.

I’m only asking because some folk think the Tower Shield should act like a stone wall that you can defeat by just shimmying to the side, but in my eye that neither follows the Tower Shield rules as written, nor does it square with just moving the shield to face the foe like you can do with basically every other shield.

[Zwordsman]

Well I think you're getting the cover from the shield raise.
and AFAIK, Shield Raise is not directional. you move it against any attacks.

So I assume you do the same to the tower shield. You' raised it to block in coming things.(well not shield block) and then you covered behind it. N o reason I know of that it wouldn't act like normal shield and pivote.

[Edge93]

+1

[lordcirth]

I think it makes the most sense for the Take Cover action to be invalidated, but not the Raise Shield. But that's just my intuition.

[Fuzzy-Wuzzy]

prototype00 wrote:

I’m only asking because some folk think the Tower Shield should act like a stone wall that you can defeat by just shimmying to the side

Sounds like they're thinking of PF1, where a tower shield was a wall when you set it---a rule which did not survive the transition to PF2.

[Draco18s]

Fuzzy-Wuzzy wrote:

prototype00 wrote:

I’m only asking because some folk think the Tower Shield should act like a stone wall that you can defeat by just shimmying to the side

Sounds like they're thinking of PF1, where a tower shield was a wall when you set it---a rule which did not survive the transition to PF2.

Or further back in 3.5

I had an idea in college to build a dual-tower-shield fighter once, basically wall himself in.

[The ShadowShackleton]

In 3.0 you could use a tower shield to ignore area effect damage, like a house fire, a tornado, a swarm of locusts. It was pretty hilariously badly constructed rules wise.

I agree it provides you with cover, period. The game is simplified and facing is not part of the rules. If you are flanking you already get the compensatory bonus, otherwise the tower shield wielded can turn to face whoever is attacking.