| GoonPontoon |
I'm a little late to this party...but I want to share my two cents about the AoO point several of you are contending with. Multiple people have stated that if you declare a Spring Attack around a corner with no target, and an enemy is there, then that enemy gets an AoO against you since he was not declared as a target.
But Spring Attack is meant to be used with an attack. Whether or not you actually attack doesn't matter. Since you are declaring and using a Spring Attack, the assumption is that your character is intending to attack something that is around the corner, because he believes that there is actually something to attack there. That being said, coming around the corner with the intent to attack is good enough for me to say that any enemy you encounter and attack as part of that Spring Attack would not get an AoO against you.
Even without that intent (Which doesn't make any sense, btw. Why use Spring Attack if you aren't attacking?), if you are coming around the corner blind and encounter an enemy, that enemy doesn't necessarily know you were around the corner or were coming around. So even if you had to declare that enemy as the target after coming around the corner (which I don't think makes sense), you would still most likely have the jump on them and they still shouldn't get an AoO. Even enemies that are aware of you when you can both see each other don't get AoO against Spring Attack. So why would one that's unaware of you until you pop around the corner get one?