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AoO question for 3.5: reach weapon on a diagonal!
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<blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7246276" data-attributes="member: 996"><p>The exception is necessitated by the 'doughnut' effect, for the AoO and threat rules to work with the adjacent dead-zone, the diagonal 'corners' have to be filled in, otherwise an enemy can walk through them, passing from 15' to 5' without ever passing within 10' - weird. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p>So it needn't apply to creatures with a natural 10' reach, though they should still get an AoO when an enemy moves from 15' to 5'... including (though it clearly does, RAW) spiked-chain wielders. </p><p></p><p>It's a fix - a kludge, really. </p><p>There was a similar flaw in the AoO rules with regard to conventional reach weapons: you could move through an ally's square, and cover prevented AoOs, and, while in an ally's square, you had cover. So one creature could move up to w/in 10' of the pole-arm user, and then up to 8 of his allies could walk through his square, and around the guy with the polearm, to completely surround him. Don't recall if that one was ever kludged.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tony Vargas, post: 7246276, member: 996"] The exception is necessitated by the 'doughnut' effect, for the AoO and threat rules to work with the adjacent dead-zone, the diagonal 'corners' have to be filled in, otherwise an enemy can walk through them, passing from 15' to 5' without ever passing within 10' - weird. ;) So it needn't apply to creatures with a natural 10' reach, though they should still get an AoO when an enemy moves from 15' to 5'... including (though it clearly does, RAW) spiked-chain wielders. It's a fix - a kludge, really. There was a similar flaw in the AoO rules with regard to conventional reach weapons: you could move through an ally's square, and cover prevented AoOs, and, while in an ally's square, you had cover. So one creature could move up to w/in 10' of the pole-arm user, and then up to 8 of his allies could walk through his square, and around the guy with the polearm, to completely surround him. Don't recall if that one was ever kludged. [/QUOTE]
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