CRGreathouse said:
1. My take on the glossary definition is that a 5-foot step doesn't count as a move (as in move vs. move-eq action), not as in "youi didn't change position".
I agree with you. I was just playing devil's advocate with Artoomis and pulling his chain.
CRGreathouse said:
2. In an argument, this is all that would have to be shown - that a given interpretation contradicts itself:
If you can take multiple 5-foot steps you provoke AoO; 5-foot steps don't provoke AoO; thus you can't take multiple 5-foot steps. It's a "proof by contradiction".
Well, that assumes that the first part of this argument is correct. Where does it say that if you take multiple 5-foot steps that you provoke an AoO? It says (page 122) that "If you move into another threatened space, enemies do get attacks of opportunity for your leaving the second threatened space". This does not state that a different rule cannot supercede this one. For example, the Tumbling and Spring Attack rules obviously supercede this rule. Maybe the 5-foot step definition does as well.
These two rules might not be mutually exclusive.