Hey while you're at it WOTC.

[Sir Brennen]

Also, wasn't it mentioned that item creation will require feats? I know that XP expenditure is going away for sure.

 

[Morrus]

Does 5' of vertical movent trigger an AOO?

It's honestly never occured to me that it might not, and apply AOO to vertical and horizontal movement; or, more specifically, I apply it to "movement". This is the first time it's ever been suggested to me that there might be disagreement on that. I'd be curious as to what other people do.

 

[Samnell]

It's honestly never occured to me that it might not, and apply AOO to vertical and horizontal movement; or, more specifically, I apply it to "movement". This is the first time it's ever been suggested to me that there might be disagreement on that. I'd be curious as to what other people do.

There is another square five feet above you just as there is one five feet in front of you. Movement is movement is movement is movement forever and ever. Anything else seems silly.

I vaguely recall this being spelled out in the Manual of the Planes... Yes, it's the clear implication of the rules on page 9.

 

[Andor]

So then both of you would give a foe an AOO when a PC jumps down on him swinging a sword?

 

[Shortman McLeod]

So then both of you would give a foe an AOO when a PC jumps down on him swinging a sword?

Hell yes. The goblin (or whatever) braces his spear for the jumping PC to fall onto . . .

 

[am181d]

There is another square five feet above you just as there is one five feet in front of you. Movement is movement is movement is movement forever and ever. Anything else seems silly.

If you try to stick most characters in a 5 ft. cube you will cut their heads off. The vertical space that a character controls is not equivalent to the horizontal space that they control.

 

[hong]

Bah, I managed without a Z-axis for 25 years, I can do without for another 25.

 

[Samnell]

If you try to stick most characters in a 5 ft. cube you will cut their heads off. The vertical space that a character controls is not equivalent to the horizontal space that they control.

If you're going by that standard, then we need to remove natural reach from daggers. It's an abstraction, not a field of ultimate decapitation. PCs don't fill every millimeter of their five foot square with their own body mass or a constantly swirling field of steel either.

 

[Samnell]

So then both of you would give a foe an AOO when a PC jumps down on him swinging a sword?

Without hesitation. Jumping on people with lots of sharp objects on their person is a bit dangerous, don't you think?

 

[Varianor Abroad]

Movement up costs extra. See the DMG. Twice as many squares to go straight up. Movement down of course costs half - you fly straight down twice as fast.

So the question is, do you even get a flying upward 5' correction. (Do you only move 2.5 feet?) Ignoring that, if you moved upward any amount of movement measured in squares in excess of five, then I would subject you to AoOs as appropriate.