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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mrtauntaun" data-source="post: 2532148" data-attributes="member: 14429">To futher expand upon the Ogre example, please Consider the Following (TM, Bill Nye the Science Guy):A character is in melee combat with an ogre near a ledge.  He makes a full attack and take a '5 Foot Step' off the ledge, and begins to fall downwards.  Now, as he is moving well within the ogre's threatened area, this would provoke an AoO normally.  'But a 5 foot step never provokes an AoO!!!!'In this case, because the total movement is net beyond 5 feet within the ogre's threatened area, it would have to, even though the only action the player declared was a 5 foot step.  I would therefore state this (the step into air) can not be done on these grounds as well, since such a movement would have to provoke an AoO.  A move action, providing the same result (jumping down, or walking off as a move) would certainly provide an AoO, so this would as well.Now, there is the arguement out there that falling is not considered movement. I would think since this would have to provoke an AoO in this example, it would have to be considered so.I knew there was a way I could further complicate this: involve AoO's  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> I think that makes sense <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />Anyone?</blockquote>

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