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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Flamestrike" data-source="post: 8032338" data-attributes="member: 6788736">The same square.Remember despite the stop/start nature of turn based combat, no-one is standing there frozen in time while other people take turns and move around the board doing stuff, only to freeze themselves when the next guy moves. Everyone is moving at the same time, and attacking at the same time etc.Squares are abstractions, like turns and rounds are.In a round where (say) a Barbarian is chasing a fleeing Orc (with the higher initiative) it seems to us (at the table) the Barbarian is frozen in time while the Orc moves his full speed, with the Barbarian following up afterwards (while the Orc is frozen in time). The 'in game' reality (to an in game observer) is that the Barbarian and Orc are moving at the same time, the Barbarian hot on the Orcs tail for the whole round.The tabletop positioning of miniatures etc doesn't match precisely the in game reality. The in game reality is (and always is) everyone is moving at once, while on the table (from our perspective) the inverse is true.Halfway out the sheath (action not completed yet) so unarmed AoO only. He hasnt had a turn yet, so his action has yet to be resolved.The Barbarian could have narrated (prior to combat starting) that he is slowly drawing a weapon. As long as (in the DMs view) this does not trigger combat starting, he's fine to do that (action completed). If going for a weapon triggers combat, then he doesnt complete that action till his turn on round 1, and may indeed choose to do something else entirely when that turn comes around (hastily sheathing his half drawn weapon and instead pulling out a potion for example).</blockquote>

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