All right, my original judgment stands, but for different reasons, Arcanist.<br/><br/>You cannot take a 5-foot-step while crawling.  You'd have to take a feat called "Fast Crawl" to do so.  The text for "Fast Crawl" states:<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Benefit: While prone, you can move at half speed. This movement provokes attacks of opportunity as normal. You can take a 5-foot step while crawling. This benefit does not stack with the rogue crawl talent.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Normal: You can crawl 5 feet as a move action. You cannot take a 5-foot step while crawling.</strong></span></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>According to the feat, you can only crawl 5 feet as a move action, but while it states that you cannot take a 5-foot step, it doesn't state why.  For that explanation, we will have to review the 5-step rule, which states:<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">You can move 5 feet in any round when you don’t perform any other kind of movement. Taking this 5-foot step never provokes an attack of opportunity. You can’t take more than one 5-foot step in a round, and you can’t take a 5-foot step in the same round that you move any distance.<br/><br/>You can take a 5-foot step before, during, or after your other actions in the round.<br/><br/>You can only take a 5-foot-step if your movement isn’t hampered by difficult terrain or darkness. <span class="bbc_u"><strong>Any creature with a speed of 5 feet or less can’t take a 5-foot step, since moving even 5 feet requires a move action for such a slow creature.</strong></span><br/><br/>You may not take a 5-foot step using a form of movement for which you do not have a listed speed.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>As you can see from this rule, a creature with a move speed of 5 feet cannot take a 5-foot step.  A 5-foot step is considered a move action, and a move action will generally result in an attack of opportunity.<br/><br/>Therefore, the play stands, but for different reasons.<br/><br/>Additionally...<br/><br/>Be mindful of your action summaries.  These usually control the action within combat because I don't really have the desire to parse through everyone's posts to figure out the technical aspects of your actions.<br/><br/><strong>From now on, action summaries control over descriptive posts.</strong><br/><br/>Is my decision fair or unfair?  Please let me know in a civilized manner.<br/><br/><strong>PLAY IS UNPAUSED.</strong>