Ah yes. So sure. Try it out. It's really only 5' more that you're restricting them to. But what's your purpose? Are your players running circles around your monsters and driving you crazy? Do you plays with flanking for it to matter?
This would serve to eliminate AoO unless you're very low on speed.
No, I was thinking in addition to the normal rules, not instead of.
No, I mean that AoO and the disengage action would become very rare, because any creature could step out of reach of an enemy by expending just 5 extra feet of movement. The only cases where I could see AoO happening is if you can't disengage, you're stuck in melee with only 5 feet of movement left, and you really really need to leave melee.
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I can understand why 5e got rid of the 5' step, but I find it's a bit too easy to run around things as a result, so I was pondering this house rule:
"Passing through a hostile's reach counts as difficult terrain. You may negate this by using disengage or accepting an opportunity attack."
Thoughts? Pitfalls?
This would serve to eliminate AoO unless you're very low on speed. That would make a big difference if you're surrounded.
No, I was thinking in addition to the normal rules, not instead of.
Isn't being in another creature's space (unless theyre a size smaller than you or vice versa) being difficult terrain already a rule?
Yes, but not being in its reach.
Ah yes. So sure. Try it out. It's really only 5' more that you're restricting them to. But what's your purpose? Are your players running circles around your monsters and driving you crazy? Do you plays with flanking for it to matter?
No, I mean that AoO and the disengage action would become very rare, because any creature could step out of reach of an enemy by expending just 5 extra feet of movement. The only cases where I could see AoO happening is if you can't disengage, you're stuck in melee with only 5 feet of movement left, and you really really need to leave melee.