[Ask the Designers] Cleave / Great Cleave and 5-foot step


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Liberty's Edge

3.5 Cleave

If you deal a creature enough damage to make it drop (typically by dropping it to below 0 hit points or killing it), you get an immediate, extra melee attack against another creature within reach. You cannot take a 5-foot step before making this extra attack. The extra attack is with the same weapon and at the same bonus as the attack that dropped the previous creature. You can use this ability once per round.

3.5 Great Cleave
This feat works like Cleave, except that there is no limit to the number of times you can use it per round.

Alpha 2 Cleave
As a full-round action, make a single melee attack against a foe within reach. If you hit, you deal damage normally and can make an additional attack (at the same bonus) against a foe that is adjacent to the first and also within reach. Both of these attacks are made at your highest attack bonus. You can only make one additional attack in a round with this feat.

Alpha 2 Great Cleave
As a full-round action, make a single melee attack against a foe within reach. If you hit, you deal damage normally and can make an additional attack (at the same bonus) against a foe that is adjacent to the previous foe and within reach. If you hit, you can continue to make attacks against foes adjacent to the previous foe, so long as they
are within your reach. You cannot attack an individual foe more than once in a round with this feat.

Question: The current wording in alpha 2 doesn't say that you cannot take a 5-foot step before making this extra attack. Is it an oversight or are we allowed to make a 5-foot adjustment before the follow-up attacks?

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