This massive wooden shield is nearly as tall as you are. In most situations, it provides the indicated shield bonus to your AC. However, you can instead use it as total cover, though you must give up your attacks to do so. The shield does not, however, provide cover against targeted spells; a spellcaster can cast a spell on you by targeting the shield you are holding. You cannot bash with a tower shield, nor can you use your shield hand for anything else.
- AC Bonus: 4
- Maximum dexterity bonus: +2
- Arcane spell failure: 50%
- Armor check penalty: -10
- To-Hit Penalty: -2 (Working as of patch 1.23)
Crafting mold
The crafting mold for a tower shield requires 3 metal ingots or 3 wooden planks. Other than normal iron ingots and wooden planks, one can alternatively use:
- Duskwood: DC 9, weight reduced by 60%
- Zalantar: DC 14, +2 Armor Modifier, arcane spell failure reduced to 40%
- Mithral: DC 14, arcane spell failure reduced to 30%, weight reduced by 40%
- Darksteel: DC 14, 5/- acid damage resistance
- Adamantine: DC 19, 3/- damage resistance
Bug Notes
As NWN2 was built from pre-1.69 NWN1, the tower shield weight bug is present. It remains unfixed as of version 1.20.