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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MarkB" data-source="post: 5949266" data-attributes="member: 40176">Moving cautiously around your enemy is what the five-foot-step, or 4e's Shift, is for. It's only when you move too far in one action that you're considered to be paying more attention to moving than to opponents.Personally, it would rub me up the wrong way if you could move freely around an armed opponent to the full extent of your speed without penalty. The idea that you can be facing off against someone in a melee and just casually stroll behind their back without them trying to stop you doesn't seem right.You could argue for half-speed maybe, and a special acrobatic ability like Tumble is reasonable enough, but for general purposes I think the Shift action does a decent job of representing the rate of movement you could reasonably achieve against an opponent whilst still keeping your own guard up.</blockquote>