Step up feat and tiny creatures

[Granburro Petit]

Hello to all!

I hope this thread has not been covered yet (I couldn't find my answer using search feature...). First at all, Great website!

I'm actually new to Pf, but I've been playing D&D3.5 for a while. My question is about the "Step up" feat: if I've understood, the purpose of this feat is basically to follow someone who is getting away from you. I'm playing a tiny creature which usually fights in the sames quare of foes: If the foe moves away in his turn, could I follow him with "Step up"?

Thanks a lot!

Granburro Petit

p.s. sorry for my bad English, I haven't practiced it for a while! =)

[Grick]

Granburro Petit wrote:

My question is about the "Step up" feat: if I've understood, the purpose of this feat is basically to follow someone who is getting away from you. I'm playing a tiny creature which usually fights in the sames quare of foes: If the foe moves away in his turn, could I follow him with "Step up"?

As written, no. Step Up can be used whenever an adjacent foe attempts to take a 5-foot step away from you. A creature that is sharing your space is not adjacent to you.

However, I don't see any reason to not allow it to work that way for tiny creatures, so I would certainly house-rule it to work.

Remember that it only works for 5' steps, not regular movement. If the creature takes a full move action or withdraw, you cannot step up.

[Granburro Petit]

Well, thanks for your answer! I've understood that the feat was made with "adjacent" insted of "threatened" to be more no-reach friendly, but for a tiny creature it would be quite useless if it couldn't be used this way. (World should shows more love to tiny creatures, lol).
If they use their move action, at least they'd give me an attack of opportunity or, in the case of withdrawing, they couldn't attack me^^