Threatened Square Clarification

[TonyTron]

"Moving out of a Threatened Square: When a character moves out of a threatened square, that character generally provokes an attack of opportunity."

If you move from a threatened square around your enemy, never leaving it's threat range, is there an Attack of Op per square?

[sonofzeal]

Yes. Every time you leave a threatened square, you trigger a potential AoO, even if you're moving into another threatened square. This is what makes reach weapons so useful - attacking enemies generally have to pass out of a threatened square to get adjacent to you.


Few exceptions: 5-foot-steps don't trigger the AoO. Tumble DC 15 can avoid the AoO as well. And then there's the Full Round Withdrawal action, which treats the square you start on (but none of the others) as unthreatened. On the other side is "Thicket of Blades", a stance from ToB that removes these exceptions when used against the person in the stance.

[Bakkan]

Nope. Further down the page, in the section "Combat Reflexes and Additional Attacks of Opportunity":


Moving out of more than one square threatened by the same opponent in the same round doesn’t count as more than one opportunity for that opponent.

[eggynack]

No. You get one attack of opportunity for the whole movement. If the enemy makes one big movement around your threat range, without ever leaving the range as a whole, you'd get a single attack for it. If he did some other separate thing, like maybe standing from prone before using a belt of battle to take another move action around your threat range, you'd get two AoO's with combat reflexes.