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Message: <blockquote data-quote="0-hr" data-source="post: 3322343" data-attributes="member: 4734">I've always thought of the 5ft step as more a "5ft adjustment" put in place because the world really isn't divided up into squares. When you take a 5ft step, you move the center of your fighting space (or centroid) that last inch to make you count as in the next square. It's like driving from Nevada to California - a long drive if you start from the middle of Nevada, but not very far if you start out on the border. And since characters are like electron clouds statistically distributed over their fighting area, you may just as well assume that they were close to the border before taking a "step".So  (regardless of size) you just move a little bit - just enough to put you over the border into the next square. The total distance moved is equal to the space between squares plus an infinitely small amount - a distance which anything from a cat to a storm giant could do without having to think about it (ie. no AoO).I can see a logical problem with really little things (that take up only a quarter square or less) but that just doesn't come up all that often.</blockquote>