Stand Still Feat Question

[Saldiven]

"Stand Still (Combat)

You can stop foes that try to move past you.

Prerequisites: Combat Reflexes.

Benefit: When a foe provokes an attack of opportunity due to moving through your adjacent squares, you can make a combat maneuver check as your attack of opportunity. If successful, the enemy cannot move for the rest of his turn. An enemy can still take the rest of his action, but cannot move. This feat also applies to any creature that attempts to move from a square that is adjacent to you if such movement provokes an attack of opportunity."

As written, this doesn't function with reach weapons attacking at their reach distance. Has this been FAQ'd, or does it work specifically as written?

[Claxon]

To my knowledge it stands as is. It does not work well with reach weapon.

I believe there is a fighter archetype that will let you change your threat range with polearm reach weapons as a free action, but it wouldn't help you much on attacks of opportunity.

It also doesn't get better for enlarged creatures either. Or enlarge creatures with reach.

Which would be a natural consequence of what you're suggesting. Which would probably be too good.

[Magda Luckbender]

Like Claxon said. I think this was an oversight of the authors who wrote this feat. It is likely to forever stand as-is. I think the authors just were not thinking in terms of reach, so 'adjacent' and 'threatened' were conflated.

[Saldiven]

Hrm. People should pound on the FAQ button to see if we can get an FAQ/Errata for it.

[Rhatahema]

I'd guess that it wasn't a mistake, but a conscious decision to restrict the feat's power. If it affected any threatened square, its power would rise exponentially with size increases.

As a side note, the feat seems to misunderstand provoking with movement. You don't provoke for moving through threatened squares, you provoke for moving out of a threatened square. They could have saved themselves word count by getting it right in the first sentence, rather than elaborating in the last.

[Magda Luckbender]

It is because of how the feat's wording seems to misunderstand provoking and movement that I guess it was an oversight. If one isn't entirely clear about how movement provokes an AoO, one certainly isn't thinking in terms of reach and threatened spaces. That said, it's fine how it is, and we'll happily leave it as a sop for those who are reach-challenged.

[Rikkan]

The PF feat was written in the time people still believed in backwards compatibility.
It seemed to be intentionally very limited in function because the 3.5 version was good.