Strategy guide provides a nice diagram for diagonals and threatened areas for medium characters, medium characters with reach weapons and large creatures. Too bad it contradicts this card and this FAQ:
10-Foot Reach and Diagonals: I’m confused about reach and diagonals. I heard somewhere online that you don’t threaten the second diagonal with a 10-foot reach but that you somehow get an attack of opportunity when opponents move out of that square, but the Rules Reference Cards show that you do threaten the second diagonal. Which one is correct?
The cards are correct. As an exception to the way that diagonals normally work, a creature with 10 feet of reach threatens the second diagonal. These changes will be reflected in the next errata.
posted Dec 19, 2014
No offense, but you guys should plan a nice meeting to coordinate. Waiting for next errata, as you wrote!
The Strategy Guide was written before that FAQ was released, alas.
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The question is being asked because a newly published book is going directly against the FAQ on the topic. Also, above a certain distance reach stops being a cube and turns into (an approximation of) a circle.
Please stop being so intentionally abrasive.
This was not even a question. It was just funny to me to see that even among Paizo people there are different views, since different products describe different things. I assume designers have decided for it now, as described in the FAQ, but expect to see this question asked more, since these two products are clearly aimed to new players; I hope everybody will be nice with them.
This was not even a question. It was just funny to me to see that even among Paizo people there are different views, since different products describe different things. I assume designers have decided for it now, as described in the FAQ, but expect to see this question asked more, since these two products are clearly aimed to new gamers; I hope everybody will be nice with them.
Essentially, the newest FAQ changed the old, more confusing ruling that was in the Strategy Guide, but the cards had the newer, clearer ruling. The release dates of cards and Strategy Guide being in the other order are due to the timing of distribution as well as some additional things (like the Strategy Guide's first print being sticky, so the printers gave us a new one for free, but it took time).