Hi, I'm searching all over, and I'm coming up with nothing. For whatever reason, it makes sense to me that someone that is Enlarged to ten foot tall and carrying a (now) five foot or longer blade (longsword, flail, whatever) is going to be threatening a larger area than just the eight squares around him. As I understand it, enlarging with a reach weapon gives you a threat where you would hit squares 3 and 4, and be able to take AoO in those squares, too. Is the sword and board fighter really limited to attacks and reach of 1 when he's enlarged?
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Again, I apologizing for dredging up what seems like it should be clear in the rules, and it's not for me. Please include Page numbers or definitive answers? Thanks!
Okay, thank you, thenobledrake, Rikkan, and Lifat. I have been thinking I've been going crazy because I just can't find a clear answer anywhere.
Is there, to anyone's knowledge, any reason why I wouldn't threaten AoOs on those second squares, (apart from the possibly-left-out corners)? I know that Large sized monsters do this to us all the time, say, if I charge through squares that they threaten. I've never heard of differentiation between Attack range and AoO range, other than the obvious exception of lunge, where you are straining to get reach you normally wouldn't have, and immediately lose that reach once the attack is made.
Pathfinder did not adopt the 3.5 wording for diagonal squares, but that is the intent according to SKR. Everyone uses it as if they played 3.5 anyway. :)
If I understand SKR's point correctly, you don't threaten the 15' diagonals unless the enemy moves from the diagonal into a threatened square, right? Basically, in doing so, you move over a theoretical 10'-distance square that would be threatened if the grid allowed it to exist. But if a creature starts on the 15' diagonal and moves away, they do not provoke, as they never crossed that 10' threshold.
It's a solid way to get around the unprovoked diagonal approach problem without effectively granting partial extra reach to the large creature.
He is saying that by leaving the diagonal you provoke since that diagonal also contains the 10 foot distance that you would threaten, and you should not be magically allowed to go from 15ft away to 5 feet away and pretend like the 10 foot distance did not exist.
So just because the grid has a square for "15 feet away" and a square for "5 feet away," but no square for "10 feet away," using that corner path doesn't mean you're magically teleporting from 15 feet to 5 feet; you are passing through a 10-foot-radius band around the creature, and therefore you provoke an AOO.
Jason admits it's not clear, and obviously it doesn't have the diagram in the 3E book to provide a non-textual example, but it's supposed to work as I described above.
edit:Blaphers you are correct. I misunderstood what you were trying to say at first.