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Hi ya'll.
First let me lay out a quick sketch of what I am talking about.
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The player is in position "y", and the end of a corridor, with an open door directly in front of them and walls to either side. Can the player take a 5 foot step to position "z"?
Until about a month ago I thought the answer was "no!" but then I had a late night where I remembered reading a rule clarification that seemed to allow movement like this.
However, my local PFS group recently posted that movement like this was not allowed (my original thought).
My question: Was I temporarily on the crack?
*edited for spelling error that made me look like I was *currently* on the crack*
It seems perfectly legit to me.
The rules explicitly allow diagonal movement as 5' steps.
The onus is then on those who think this should be banned to find a rule specifically banning it.
You don't need any special allowance to do so.
I can't speak to the crack issue.
There is special rules about threatening around corners, and for partial cover, but those don't apply here.
Yeah... I thought this was not legal either...
Can you prove this to me? Not that I think you are wrong, but only so I truly understand it.
Not allowed.
Go to the section on Special Movement Rules.
See the example diagram and footnote regarding the ogre's movement.
The ogre cannot cut across the corner to get to that location...
I found this, which states you cannot move diagonally past a corner. Its in the combat chapter under tactical movement.
Diagonals
When measuring distance, the first diagonal counts as 1 square, the second counts as 2 squares, the third counts as 1, the fourth as 2, and so on.
You can't move diagonally past a corner (even by taking a 5-foot step). You can move diagonally past a creature, even an opponent.
You can also move diagonally past other impassable obstacles, such as pits.
What if the opponent is a gelatinous cube (with a corner)?
What about it? Doesn't change anything in RAW.
A GM could adjudicate that counts as a hard corner if it breaks his sense of verisimilitude, but the cube is an opponent and not a hard wood/stone/iron/building material of choice wall.
Now if you build a dungeon out of dead cubes....