Quote Originally Posted by brian 333 View Post
You can stand in the open behind a sheet of glass and look at a Medusa.
Says what? Really, tell me, where does it say that gaze attacks which we know can penetrate the borders of planes (you can be petrified by a medusa when looking at her from the Ethereal) can't go through transparant barriers?

Tower shields are great for lots of things. They don't really help with gaze attacks.
Sure they do. You set it up to make a total cover. Bamm! You've got an opaque barrier that keeps you from seeing it. Sure, to attack you need to leave lean around it, reducing it to cover and exposing you to the gaze, but if you don't want to attack it works just as well as a blindfold or just closing your eyes.