Mobility, Acrobatics, and Tiny Creatures

[standaloneghost]

I'm in need of some backup here. This rules question involves the feat Mobility, and races of varying size categories.

I am currently playing a Halfling Champion of Irori. To ignore most of the boring details, the relevant information is as follows: I am using Unchained Monk instead of Monk, I possess the feat "Mobility" (as linked above), and I am permanently under the effect of Reduce Person, lowering my size category to Tiny. This reduces my range to zero, meaning I must be inside of an opponent's square to hit them.

Now, I am using Flying Kick when possible, which we have agreed can be used with Acrobatics to avoid taking AOO's for moving through threatened areas. This means that at the end of 20 feet of movement, I am taking a flurry action as long as I am inside of their square. I can use acrobatics to avoid any AOO's for moving through any reach squares, but I will still be subject to an AOO for moving INTO the occupied square.

Mobility:

Benefit: You get a +4 dodge bonus to Armor Class against attacks of opportunity caused when you move out of or within a threatened area. A condition that makes you lose your Dexterity bonus to Armor Class (if any) also makes you lose dodge bonuses.

Dodge bonuses stack with each other, unlike most types of bonuses.

Here is where our argument starts. He states that the feat specifically spells out I only gain the AC bonus against AOO's caused by moving out of or through a threatened square, and that I do not get it for moving INTO an opponent's square. I insist that the two are not mutually exclusive. You can attack into your own square, which means that the square adjacent to him (which I pass through) and the square he is in (which I end my turn in) are both considered threatened squares. Therefore, an AOO triggered by me entering an opponent's square IS an attack triggered by moving through a threatened space (from adjacent to inside of him).

[James Risner]

standaloneghost wrote:

He states that the feat specifically spells out I only gain the AC bonus against AOO's caused by moving out of or through a threatened square, and that I do not get it for moving INTO an opponent's square. I insist that the two are not mutually exclusive.

You are both right, but since he is GM his interpretation wins.

Until they clarify, that will the state of affairs. Jason hinted that there might be tiny provoking clarification in 2009. They have not yet arrived.