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The core rule book reads "if you have a base attack bonus of +1 or higher, you may draw a weapon
as a free action combined with a regular move' {p.187}. What is meant by regular move? One of the players in my campaign believes that he can draw a weapon as part of a full attack action as a free action. I believe that move means movement as in walking, running, flying, or charging, and the only way to draw a weapon and get more than one attack is with the quick draw feat.
Also, can a character normally draw a weapon as a free action and as part of a regular move while swimming or climbing? Finally, is a 5-foot step and actions that are considered a 5-foot
step {such as step up p.135 core} considered a regular move for purposes of drawing a weapon as
a free action?

blahpers |

Normal: Without this feat, you may draw a weapon as a move action, or (if your base attack bonus is +1 or higher) as a free action as part of movement. Without this feat, you can draw a hidden weapon as a standard action.
From the looks of it, it doesn't have to be the "move" action; it just has to be movement, which includes things like 5-foot step, withdraw, run, crawl, charge, and so on. The method of movement doesn't matter either--you can be moving on land, flying, swimming, or climbing--so long as you have a hand available to draw the weapon, anyway.
I'm not certain a 5-foot step was intended to count for this purpose, though. I am pretty confident that the rest were intended to apply.

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A "regular move" seems like pretty unambiguous wording and that it's pretty clearly supposed to be a move action spend to move your character. Pathfinder doesn't actually have a word for that so "regular move" is the closest we'll get.
(Honestly, it should be called the Move Action, and what we currently call a move action should be called something like a Minor Action, but that's a different discussion)