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Per the tower shield description, it's possible to deploy a tower shield to effectively create a wall along one edge of your space. This makes sense for Medium creatures wielding Medium tower shields, as they only take up one space. However, a Large creature takes up four spaces, and a Large tower shield is presumably sized appropriately. Would such a shield provide cover along one full edge of the 2x2 square?
Note that this is not about creatures using smaller tower shields for cover.
Yes, the tower shield would cover the entire 10 ft edge. Space, as the term is used in the tower shield's description, does not refer to a 5x5 ft area ("square" is the appropriate term for such an area). Instead, "space" refers to the total area taken up by a creature (for example, see the "space" column in the creature size table). As a result, providing cover along one edge of a large creature's space would extend across the full 10 feet of that edge.
