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1) Can you take a 5ft step into a square you'll be squeezing into?
2) Can you take a 5ft step out of a square you were squeezed in?
3) Is a squeezing square treated as difficult terrain for all purposes? If not, where is it different?
4) Do either provoke an AoO?
The core rulebook says:
In some cases, you may have to squeeze into or through an area that isn't as wide as the space you take up. You can squeeze through or into a space that is at least half as wide as your normal space. Each move into or through a narrow space counts as if it were 2 squares, and while squeezed in a narrow space, you take a –4 penalty on attack rolls and a –4 penalty to AC.
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Double Movement Cost: When your movement is hampered in some way, your movement usually costs double. For example, each square of movement through difficult terrain counts as 2 squares, and each diagonal move through such terrain counts as 3 squares (just as two diagonal moves normally do).
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The reason I quote these is because you can't take a 5ft step into difficult terrain, but you can take a 5ft step out of it. Does the same apply with squeezing in and squeezing out?
I don't think there's anywhere that says you provoke AoOs in either squeezing or difficult terrain, but there is one fairly unrelated mention in "Move 5 feet through difficult terrain" that I won't quote here which mentions you do provoke, and I want to cover my bases.
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As with any normal movement more than five feet, you would provoke if moving while squeezed.
Since moving through or into a tight space costs 2 squares, you obviously could not five foot step into a square that would require you to squeeze, but I see nothing that says you can't five foot step out. I've always allowed it in my games.
Although I've been wrong on a lot of rules interpretations lately. Let's see what some others have to say.
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So:
1) No
(it counts as 2 squares to move in, or through)
2) Yes
(it counts as 1 square to move out; might be more of a consensus thing rather than a rule?)
4) Yes for 1, No for 2
(only as per normal movement; if it counts as a 5ft step, you don't provoke, if it counts as 2 squares, it's not a 5ft step, and you provoke)
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I can see it working one way or the other; not both.
The other way to look at it is to compare it to moving into or out of a threatened area and when do AoO's apply.
If you move into a threatened area, you don't provoke; if you move out, you do provoke.
Might the same thing apply? Could you 5ft step in, but not out?
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Martiln: it might not be strictly realistic, but as I understand, the rules just check the cost of moving into a square, regardless of the square you came from. Every mention of difficult terrain that really tells you what to do, says that the cost to move in is increased; it says nothing about the cost to move out.
And 5ft step only works if you're actually paying only 5ft of movement to do it.