Large creatures and drawing AoOs.


Rules Questions


Scenario: An evil centaur finds himself facing an enlarged, enraged barbarian. He and his friends would like to get past Barbie and get to the squishies, but ... well, large barbarian. And as a centaur, he finds himself using a medium greatsword. He charges ... and the rules questions come in when he tries to get from 10' away to 5' away. He still occupies that square 10' away (and a few others), but he's moving in that threatened area. Should he get tagged with an attack of opportunity? (I'm leaning towards yes, in the spirit of the reach rules.)


Interesting. I always assumed that it would draw an AoO, but the rule says you provoke for "Moving out of a threatened square". The centaur is moving part of its body out of the threatened square in order to move another part of its body into the threatened square - does that count?


yes you provoke.


I'd say yes because:

PRD wrote:
Big Creatures and Cover: Any creature with a space larger than 5 feet (1 square) determines cover against melee attacks slightly differently than smaller creatures do. Such a creature can choose any square that it occupies to determine if an opponent has cover against its melee attacks. Similarly, when making a melee attack against such a creature, you can pick any of the squares it occupies to determine if it has cover against you.

If it works for cover...


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Centaur provokes when he closed from 10ft to 5ft distance through normal movement and not a 5ft-step.

Just the same as if two Large Creatures woul go for direct contact, instead of sloggin it out with a gap between them.

For your mental visualisation:
Just because he has half a horse sticking out of his butt does not mean that the human part of his body did not leave a space already threatened by the 10ft-reach dude to get into stabbity range.


Guru-Meditation wrote:
he has half a horse sticking out of his butt

Thank you for that image.


Bravo, Guru-Meditation. What you have done to the english language (and your readers' mental states) shall echo through the ages.

;)

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