Does moving contribute to the action penalty to strikes?


Rules Discussion


If I stride or step first, will my attack have a -5 penalty to hit?

Grand Lodge

Particle_Man wrote:
If I stride or step first, will my attack have a -5 penalty to hit?

No. Only actions with the attack trait incur this penalty. CR 446.

Multiple attack penalty: "...the second time you use an attack action, you take a -5 penalty to your attack roll..."


The key thing to get your head around it’s not about how many actions you’ve taken. It’s based on the number of attacks made which can include strikes, trip & disarm attempts and some spells. You can always look at the action to see if it has the attack trait.

Abilities like Hunted Shot or Flurry of Blows give you two strikes for 1 action so those are taken at 0 & -5 (-4 if agile etc). There are exceptions to the rule like Power Attack which is one powerful strike but counts as two but those will be detailed in the text for that ability.


The shove action, such as with the warhammer trait, would take the -5 to the skill roll correct?

Liberty's Edge

Starfinder Casper wrote:
The shove action, such as with the warhammer trait, would take the -5 to the skill roll correct?

Since it's an attack, it will if it's your second attack in the turn, yes. The same is true of things like Disarm or Trip.

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