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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 105847" data-attributes="member: 2011">There are a few rules which form a contradiction for the more than one 5' step per round question. They consist of the definition of a 5-foot step and the AoO rules and the fact that you could avoid more than one AoO by doing two 5-foot steps.If you choose to ignore these because one of them comes from the glossary, that's your choice. Unfortunately, that is the only good overall definition of what a 5-foot step is. Everything else talks about a 5-foot step with relation to the topic at hand (e.g. taking a 5 foot step if an MEA does not involve movement).Agreed. However:"If your entire move for the round is 5 feet (a 5-foot step), enemies do not get attacks of opportunity for you moving."and"5 foot step: This movement does not provoke an AoO"logically implies that if you move more than 5 feet in a round, you WILL provoke an AoO from the second 5 foot movement that you made if it too is in a threatened space. Correct?Nowhere in the game can you move through two threatened spaces in a round and not provoke a movement AoO from the second space unless you have some feat or skill that prevents it.However, if you provoke an AoO with the second 5 foot movement, it cannot be a 5-foot step since it is provoking an AoO. 5-foot steps do not do that. Hence, the contraction.If it is not a 5-foot step, but merely 5 foot of movement, it cannot be used with the partial action of haste due to the partial action rules. You can only use a 5-foot step with them, you cannot do 5 foot of normal movement with them and get an MEA, another move, or an action.I cannot believe that I am agreeing with Artoomis on this (since I originally took the opposite opinion), but a contradiction in the rules is a contradiction. Either you ignore it and take the position that two 5-foot steps can be made, or you realize that the only one 5-foot step per round position does not have the contradiction.Not only is one 5-foot step per round the intent as you pointed out, but one 5-foot step per round does not have this rules contradiction. The two 5-foot steps per round position does.So, although obscure, it is fairly straightforward once understood.</blockquote>

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