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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Empirate" data-source="post: 5622173" data-attributes="member: 78958">I don't argue the "spirit", only RAW. The spell doesn't actually change the distance you move, but your movement speed, which is a more or less fixed variable. For example, Humans normally have a movement speed of 30', which Slow lessens to 15'. Those Humans can still take a 5' step, nothing in the rules forbids it.A 5' step is not 5' long because of how fast you are - it is the same for all creatures, regardless of base speed, size, leg length etc. A 5' step (also called an "adjustment", IIRC) is an abstraction that reflects combatants moving about in a fight, even while they remain relatively immobile because they're focused on attacking/casting a spell/etc. This means 5' steps are not dependent on movement speed at all, unless you're generally so slow that you can't be considered to "adjust" your position automatically to what happens around you (i.e., your base speed is 5' or less).I agree it is an entirely reasonable houserule to have Slow make 5' steps impossible. I'm just saying that would be an interpretation that isn't explicitly in the rules as written.</blockquote>