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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Spectrum Rider" data-source="post: 1454638" data-attributes="member: 10777">My 10th-level monk with Spring Attack is 5 feet away from a nasty bad guy. (That is, they are not adjacent; there's a 5-ft. square between them. NBG is size Medium and has 5-ft. reach, just like the monk.) The monk can either:(1) Take a 5-ft. step towards the guy, make a Stunning Blow attack, then, using Spring Attack, get out of the way by 55 ft. or so, so as not to get hit.(2) Take a 5-ft. step toward the guy, make a Stunning Blow attack, then make a second attack (at the usual -5, no Flurry of Blows here).(3) For that matter, he can take a 5-ft. step towards the guy, then do a Flurry of Blows (no penalty because he's 9th level or higher), with the first one a Stunning Blow.These all start exactly the same - 5-ft. step, Stunning Blow - then differ.  My question is (yes, I do have a question), *when* does the monk have to decide which of these actions he's pursuing? Can he wait to see if his opponent is stunned first, and then decide on that basis?As I write this out, it dawns on me that the answer is: he has to decide before he moves the 5 ft. Reason: if, perchance, some other opponent was threatening him, it there be a difference between taking a 5 ft. step or making a 5 ft. movement as part of a Spring Attack. (The latter would provoke an AoO from the other opponent.) But what if there was no other opponent? Could he put off his decision?The Spectrum Rider</blockquote>

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