AoO diagrams and errata

[durath]

Have the diagrams at the website below been updated since the PHB errata came out?

http://www.d20reviews.com/Eric/aoo/index.htm

The errata states that you draw an attack of oppurtunity when you leave the second, not first, threatened square. Yet if you look at the second diagram the bard seems to draw an AoO for leaving the first threatened square.

It is quite possible I am reading the errata wrong but shouldn't the bard be able to move freely into square D3(first threatened space), then move freely into C3(second threatened space). If he stops in C3 he has not moved from the second threatened space yet the example states he would take an AoO. Why is this when the errata states you do not take an AoO unless you move OUT OF the second threatened space. He has not moved out of it he moved into it so there should be no AoO.

Now if he continues to move and goes from C3 to B3 NOW he has moved from the second threatened space(C3) and would take the AoO.

Please clearly illustrate where I am wrong because I'm really having a tough time understanding how that diagram jives with the errata.

 

[Dr. Zoom]

The errata states that you draw an attack of oppurtunity when you leave the second, not first, threatened square.

Read the paragraph in the PH again. The first sentence says you provoke an AoO for leaving a threatened square. Then it goes on to say that if all you do for the round is move, but not run, the square you start in is considered not threatened. But the second square has no such luxury. You would provoke an AoO if the second (or third, etc.) square was threatened. This is only if all you do is move, not run. The diagram is correct.

 

[dcollins]

You can also find official diagrams from the WOTC PH Bonus Insert page, here: http://www.wizards.com/dnd/DnD_PH_Bonus.asp

I'm quite certain that you'll see those examples matching up with what's online in the black pages.

 

[durath]

uh............

OK, all these diagrams support the same view. Why then does the errata state that you take an AoO for leaving the SECOND threatened square? Everything, the F.A.Q. these diagrams etc, all seem to illustrate that you take an AoO for leaving the first threatened square yet the errata states you take an AoO for leaving the second threatened square NOT the first.

Is the errata wrong?

 

[Dr. Zoom]

Didn't you read my post?

You are misreading the errata. It only says that when all you do in the round is move, not run. If you move 30 feet away, then do anything else except move, you provoke an AoO when you leave the first space, as usual. The first sentence of the paragraph in the PH says this. Then it goes on to explain what happens when you only move. Then the first space is considered not threatened, but only then. The diagram you referred to does not even apply to this situation. When you pass through a threatened area in that situation, you provoke an AoO when you move out of the first threatened square. The errata does not deny this, it speaks to a differant situation.

 

[durath]

"The errata does not deny this, it speaks to a differant situation."

That's basically what I wanted clarified. Thank you. I did read your post I just didn 't quite understand. I get it now-thank you for the help.

 

[Dr. Zoom]

Sure, no problem. Sorry if my last post sounded gruff. Not intended.