Warchon
2018-05-04, 07:59 AM
So, I've come across an interesting ruling that creates a question, and I'm just curious what people's POV on this is.
Apparently the 5-10 rule for counting diagonals comes into play with reach weapons. That much seems reasonable--your 10 foot reach doesn't allow you to attack two diagonal squares away.
This does however create a situation where coming in at a full diagonal means you can move at full speed and get adjacent to a reach weapon user without provoking. Now, I'm sure any DM will laugh and just say by RAI you'll get your AoO, as long as he's closing in on you and not just coincidentally passing through that non threatened square.
The strangeness comes with the Stand Still feat, which allows you to forego your normal AoO for leaving threatened status
squares and (potentially) end the opponent's move instead.
So do you defeat the purpose of the feat, allowing the enemy to close in? Trap him in a square in which neither combatant can actually hit the other? Or just kind of fudge an "in between squares" position where your Reacher can hit but the melee guy cannot?
Apparently the 5-10 rule for counting diagonals comes into play with reach weapons. That much seems reasonable--your 10 foot reach doesn't allow you to attack two diagonal squares away.
This does however create a situation where coming in at a full diagonal means you can move at full speed and get adjacent to a reach weapon user without provoking. Now, I'm sure any DM will laugh and just say by RAI you'll get your AoO, as long as he's closing in on you and not just coincidentally passing through that non threatened square.
The strangeness comes with the Stand Still feat, which allows you to forego your normal AoO for leaving threatened status
squares and (potentially) end the opponent's move instead.
So do you defeat the purpose of the feat, allowing the enemy to close in? Trap him in a square in which neither combatant can actually hit the other? Or just kind of fudge an "in between squares" position where your Reacher can hit but the melee guy cannot?