slaughterj said:spydacarnage said:How about this for a solution...
A 5-foot step does not provoke an attack of opportunity, unless it is combined with an action which does.
Therefore, your fighter can still use it to jockey for position safely, but as soon as the archer steps back to let forth a volley of arrows, he gets a sword in his gut..
Er...if the combined action already does, what difference does it make to mention the 5' step in association with it? Or, do you mean, if the full attack action, e.g., firing a bow next to a melee combatant, would have resulted in an AoO, that if you take a 5' step from the melee combatant to do your bowfire, that the AoO would occur?
That's right.