A player asked me today if they could move diagonally around a hard corner. In PF1E I'm pretty sure the answer was no. In PF2E I don't see anything telling me they can't so I ruled it was OK. Did I miss something?
A player asked me today if they could move diagonally around a hard corner. In PF1E I'm pretty sure the answer was no. In PF2E I don't see anything telling me they can't so I ruled it was OK. Did I miss something?
That rule appears not to have made it into the playtest. I hope it shows up in the final rules.
I hope it doesn't. An extra rule to remember, another limitation placed on characters, and it doesn't really add anything.
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Which way you play makes a big difference when it comes to doors. And so many fights start by opening a door.
I will play with the rule per PF1 in that you cannot move diagonally around a hard corner that fills the space. While not explicitly stated, this can be inferred from the section on Cover on page 314.
It was only thanks to this playtest that I discovered that you couldn't move around hard corners in PF1, because we kind of ignored that part of rules :D
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Bit of thread resurrection.
Watched the Paizo play through of Lost Star. In part 2 (You Tube video) a monk tries to diagonal around a hard corner in the boss fight and the GM said you can't diagonal across corners. This forced the monk to walk forward into an ally occupied square and then to the side to get into position and since it was a move action it provoked and AoO from the boss.
Not sure how official this is but it was Jason Bulmahn GMing. FYI.
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Personally, I've always played that you could move diagonally through soft corners (e.g. past a pillar or tree or pit or whatever), but not through hard corners (e.g. a door, a wall, etc.)
But that is something that should be clarified one way or the other in the rules.