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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AuraSeer" data-source="post: 628709" data-attributes="member: 1331">Right, but you seem to be missing the point slightly. In your earlier post you did allow the hypothetical character to change the type of movement he declared.If you declare a 5' Step, you are saying that will be your entire movement for the round. This has specific consequences about who gets an AoO on you, and what other actions you can take. You cannot later change your mind and decide that you actually travelled 5' with a Move action, because that would retroactively cause you to suffer more AoOs than you actually got.A similar example: imagine that you declare a Run down a corridor. Upon moving 20', you pass an open doorway, and an orc inside takes an AoO on you for running. You may choose to stop there in front of the orc if you wish, but you still don't get an attack. You cannot change your mind and call the 20' a regular Move action, because 1) that would not have drawn an AoO at the same point, and 2) it would have allowed you to keep your Dex bonus to AC.Once you begin a certain type of movement (Move, Run, or Step), you cannot change types, because that would involve changing history.</blockquote>