Dimensional Hop and a five foot step


Rules Questions


Hello,
I am about to start playing an inquisitor in a 10th level game next month and i have made my inquisitor with the travel domain (Abadar). with this domain he gets Dimensional Hop(Sp)

SRD wrote:
Dimensional Hop (Sp): At 8th level, you can teleport up to 10 feet per cleric level per day as a move action. This teleportation must be used in 5-foot increments and such movement does not provoke attacks of opportunity. You must have line of sight to your destination to use this ability. You can bring other willing creatures with you, but you must expend an equal amount of distance for each creature brought.

I am not sure if i can use this ability and take a five foot step afterward then attack with a standard action, or is this considered movement (as if i walked etc.) and i can only take a standard action afterwards.

Thanks for any help on this!


You can still take move actions and a 5' step, as long as you don't actually move. Teleporting isn't moving, it's ceasing to be in one place and appearing in another.


kyrt-ryder wrote:
You can still take move actions and a 5' step, as long as you don't actually move. Teleporting isn't moving, it's ceasing to be in one place and appearing in another.

I thought that, but i was considering teleporting next to the BBEG and then take a five foot step into flanking just seems a little OP.


I'd disagree with that interpretation.

5 foot step
You can move 5 feet in any round when you don't perform any other kind of movement

Teleportation: A teleportation spell transports one or more creatures or objects a great distance. The most powerful of these spells can cross planar boundaries. Unlike summoning spells, the transportation is (unless otherwise noted) one-way and not dispellable.

Teleportation is instantaneous travel through the Astral Plane. Anything that blocks astral travel also blocks teleportation.

Just my 2 cents, but if you aren't standing in the exact same square you started the round in after your "move action" you've experienced "some kind of movement" The words "instantaneous travel" and "transports" would make me err on the side of "no 5 ft step"

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