Questions tagged [stacking]
For questions about whether multiple effects stack on the same target.
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How does Leadership work for a Vigilante?
I’m interested in playing a Vigilante character specializing in Leadership. The Vigilante class has the Dual Identity extraordinary ability, which gives them a social identity (Bruce Wayne, Peter ...
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Can Bladesingers combine: Bladesong + Double-Bladed Scimitar + Revenant Blade feat?
Can Bladesingers combine: Bladesong + Double-Bladed Scimitar + Revenant Blade feat?
I won't detail it heavily, but can an Elf and/or Half-Elf Wizard (Bladesinger) combine all these for enhanced ...
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How (if at all) do Wild Magic Surges stack with each other?
First off there are a lot of rules on combining/overlapping effects:
The effects of the same spell cast multiple times don't combine, however. Instead, the most potent effect--such as the highest ...
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Spells or magical abilities that allow multiple simultaneous effects?
Combining Magical Effects on page 205 of the Player's Handbook says:
The effects of different spells add together while the durations of those spells overlap. The effects of the same spell cast ...
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Does being under the effect of more than one Sanctuary spell require more than one saving throw?
Does being under the effect of more than one Sanctuary spell require more than one saving throw?
In the case where there are two Clerics who cast Sanctuary on the same PC:
would a monster trying to ...
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Does the Hunter's Mark spell stack with the Rogue's Sneak Attack feature?
Wondering if when multi classing a ranger and a rogue, can the spell hunters mark stack with sneak attack on damage roll?
For reference, hunter's mark states:
You choose a creature you can see ...
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How do multiple castings of Hex affect a creature?
How do multiple castings of Hex affect a creature?
This question has two parts related to the same spell and game mechanic.
Scenario 1:
The Three Warlocks walk into a tavern and spot their arch-...
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Do the Life cleric's Disciple of Life and Blessed Healer features stack when using a spell that heals both the cleric and another creature?
A 6th-level Life Domain cleric has the following gets the Disciple of Life feature at 1st level:
Also starting at 1st level, your healing spells are more effective. Whenever you use a spell of 1st ...
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If two Moonbeam spells are placed on a Large creature, does it take damage from both beams on its turn?
If two moonbeam spells are placed on different parts of a size Large (or larger creature), does it take damage from both beams on its turn?
Or is this subject to the rule on combining magical effects ...
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Can a player have and use both Bardic Inspiration and DM's Inspiration?
Can a player have both inspiration from the DM and a Bardic Inspiration Die from a bard? Additionally, could both be used on the same attack roll/ ability check before the result is announced?
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Do Blink, Blur, normal concealment & Displacement stack? [duplicate]
Just what the title says, Do Blink, Blur, normal concealment & Displacement stack? Do any of them stack? Do all of them stack? Which ones, if any?
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Do the effects of the Modify Memory spell stack on the same creature to affect multiple memories?
In the DMG, multiple non-damage effects from a source with the same name do not stack (for example, a character with Bless cast on it multiple times only gains the benefit once).
Would this also be ...
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Does a Nabassu benefit from devouring multiple souls or just from the strongest creature it devours?
If a Nabassu (Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes) were to use its Devour Soul feature:
A nabassu can eat the soul of a creature it has killed within the last hour, provided that creature is neither a ...
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Can a character benefit from multiple Ioun Stones at once?
My goblin mystic found a few Ioun Stones (4) during the last session. I asked my DM if I could use multiple at once, she took a look at the item's description, and now we are here.
If it matters I ...
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Do more doses of poison do more damage?
For instance I want to kill an NPC via mixing poison in a soup and giving it to the NPC, assuming that the they will drink all the soup. But my poison's damage isn't enough to kill them. If I put more ...
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Do any of the various effects that adjust wind speed stack, and if so which ones?
There are multiple ways to affect wind speed: natural phenomena, psionics, magic, even certain feats can produce minor wind effects....
Do any of the various effects that adjust wind speed stack, and ...
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Do the bonuses from Artificer's Enhanced Arcane Focus and Staff of Power stack? [duplicate]
When I have an Enhanced arcane focus wand in one hand and the Staff of Power in the other, do the spell attack bonuses stack?
Enhanced Arcane Focus
Item: A rod, staff, or wand (requires ...
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Does the decoy familiar archetype stack with improved familiar if the familiar can't speak and does not give a variable bonus
familiar archetype rules
Animal archetypes modify familiars’ standard abilities, similar to how
class archetypes modify player characters’ class features. These
archetypes function by swapping ...
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Can the motes of the Ring of Shooting Star's “Shooting Star” effect be layered?
The Ring of Shooting Stars has the Shooting Star effect as described below:
Shooting Stars. You can expend 1 to 3 charges as an action. For every charge you expend, you launch a glowing mote of ...
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Does it take multiple rolls to remove Persistent damage from Multiple sources?
If you are under a persistent damage effect, you (typically) get a flat DC15 roll to remove it. Various things can trigger this roll and/or change the DC, but it for sure comes right after you take ...
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Can I Haste, booming blade, green flame blade and smite?
So I am new to Dungeons and Dragons, and for a one shot my DM is planning on a battle royal. What I want to do is a level 10 divine soul sorcerer and 2 levels in paladin.
First round I cast haste ...
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Can multiple casts of True Polymorph stack?
Heavily related to this question, I want to know if multiple castings of True Polymorph would stack if made permanent.
Picture this scenario: (Assume a willing target.) Any given character is TP'd ...
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If I drop a bag containing 15 flasks of alchemist's fire on a giant and it hits, will it take 15d4 fire damage and so on?
While flying over a giant, I drop a bag containing 15 flasks of alchemist's fire and hit them. Will the giant take 15d4 fire damage and so on? Will the damage also be 15d4 for the following round?
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Can two Cloud of Daggers be cast in the same area by different spell casters?
Quick overview of the situation, the party is 3rd level and the warlock and the bard can now both cast cloud of daggers. We were in a lizardfolk den and they saw us and came running down a 5-foot ...
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How do you choose active effects when two instances of the same spell/feature overlap?
There are two slightly different rules when it comes to overlapping game features, one from the PHB (post-errata) and one from the DMG (post-errata):
PHB:
The effects of different spells add ...
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What happens when multiple Heat Metal spells are cast on the same object?
Suppose that the mages Mary and Merry both cast Heat Metal at 2nd level on the metal armor of an enemy fighter, Fred. Both mages use their bonus action on subsequent turns to continue dealing damage ...
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Does a multiclassed Kensei monk/fighter benefit from both the Martial Arts die and the Dueling fighting style using a longsword one-handed?
To be specific, I'm planning on taking the XGtE Kensei monk to level 17, then dipping Battle Master fighter level 3 for the Dueling fighting style and maneuvers. At monk level 17, my Martial Arts die ...
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Dual wielding two +1 Longswords, do they stack?
In my campaign, my character has the opportunity to dual wield two +1 longswords. I'm just wondering if it's effective to do so or just a flex for my character.
Would it make sense to do this? Would ...
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How does Carrying Capacity work with bonuses? [duplicate]
For example: Bugbear (with Powerful Build) and a class feature similar to that (I do believe a bear totem barbarian can do that) would that give them a carrying capacity of a huge creature? Or just a ...
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Is the UA Mystic's Mighty Leap effect from the Brute Force psionic talent affected by multipliers to your jump distance?
The most recent version (v3) of the Mystic class from Unearthed Arcana can be found here.
Mystics can learn a number of Psionic Disciplines, each of which allow them to expend psi points to create ...
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Do talents that halve damage taken stack?
I know talents that add boons or bonus damage stack fairly simply.
However, the Juggernaut Expert Path from A Glorious Death and the Prince of Darkness Expert Path from Tombs of Desolation both have ...
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Gaining the same Natural Attacks from multiple sources [duplicate]
There are multiple sources from which you can gain natural attacks (Bloodlines, Rage Powers, Racial Features etc.)
What happens when you gain, say, a Bite Attack from being a Half-Orc with the "Toothy"...
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Do racial bonuses stack?
The SRD states (emphasis mine) that:
With the exception of dodge bonuses, most circumstance bonuses, and racial bonuses, only the better bonus works
This sentence seems to be missing the bolded ...
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Do the benefits to foraging from the ranger's Natural Explorer feature and the Outlander background's Wanderer feature stack?
I am planning on building my first ranger ever, and I was wondering about the Natural Explorer feature. One of its benefits when in your favored terrain is:
When you forage, you find twice as much ...
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Can a Bard inspire another character’s inspiration roll? [closed]
I was recently thinking of cool ideas for my new character, when I thought of something. Is it possible for another bard to inspire my inspiration roll? Or is it possible to inspire the roll of ...
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When you cast Mythic Blessing of Fervor, can you emulate two different metamagic feats?
When you cast Mythic Blessing of Fervor, you are allowed to choose two of the choices on the list.
Increase its speed by 30 feet.
Stand up as a swift action without provoking an attack of ...
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If you have multiple situational racial save bonuses and are in a situation where they all apply, do they stack with one another?
So let's say your character gets hit by charm person. It has the enchantment (charm) and mind effecting subtypes.
You are playing a custom race made with the race builder rules in the SRD with 3 ...
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Does a multiclassing with the Master of Many Styles and Free Style Fighter allow more active stances at once?
Both Master of Many Style and Free Style Fighter allow the character to use several stances in the same time. If a character has, for example, 3 levels as Free Style Fighter and 1 as Master of Many ...
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Can the Metamagic Song feat be used multiple times on the same spell?
The Metamagic Song feat from Races of Stone (p. 142) allows you to expend Bardic Music uses in place of increasing the level of the spell when applying metamagic. It comes with the stipulation that:
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Does a Barbarian stack rages while raging or does he reset his rage?
If a barbarian enters a new rage while he is raging do the rages stack on top of each other or would his current rage just be reset? I think the rage would be reset because its closest equivalent ...
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If two Lore Bards used the Cutting Words feature on an ability check or attack, would they stack?
Let's say the party had two Lore Bards, and both used Cutting Words on a creature who tried to attack.
Does that stack, since they are separate penalties and not enduring effects (like bless)? Or ...
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Does climb speed from other sources stack with the climb speed from the Spider Climb spell?
Spider climb doesn't say how your base climb is affected, so I’m confused. Does it stack, does the larger amount override the smaller, or does spider climb just overwrite it, period? For example a ...
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Do these bonuses to disguise really stack together to +51 (or even more, eventually)?
Inspired by an answer to another question. My character is a Kitsune with 22 Charisma* and 8 ranks in Disguise. He has a Realistic Likeness feat. So, using logic from answer by william porter (sic!) ...
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Are Base Attack Bonuses and saves for multiclassing added together?
A rogue at 5th level has:
BAB +3, Fort save +1, Ref save +4, Will save +1
At the next level I take 1 level of Shadowdancer, which has:
BAB +0, Fort save +0, Ref save +1, Will save +0
Will that ...
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Can the nightmare effect of the Dream spell stack?
Let's say a character casts the spell Dream, and chooses to make the messenger terrifying to cause a nightmare. Then, they deliver their ten words and wake up, and immediately cast Dream again on the ...
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Does catching on fire stack if a character catches on fire again while still burning?
The effect catching on fire is unclear on if it can happen multiple times to a character. For example, the spell Fires of Purity (Complete Divine p.165) states:
Any creature taking fire damage from ...
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Can the 2019 UA Artificer's Returning Weapon and Radiant Weapon infusions stack on the same weapon?
Can the 2019 UA Artificer's Returning Weapon and Radiant Weapon infusions stack on the same weapon?
Each infusion grants you a +1 to hit and damage rolls, so would you get a +2 with both infusions?
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Does Resist Energy stack with racial traits granting energy resistances?
The Aasimar race has a trait that grants the following:
Celestial Resistance: Aasimars have acid resistance 5, cold resistance 5, and electricity resistance 5.
If I cast Resist Energy on an ...
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Does the Battle Dancer's AC Bonus feature stack with the Arcane Duelist's Apparent Defense feature?
The Battle Dancer class has a feature with an AC bonus, which states (Dragon Compendium Volume I, p. 28):
AC Bonus (Ex): When unarmored and unencumbered, the battle dancer adds her Charisma bonus (...
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What do the Coming of Age and Dedication options in the Ceremony spell mean by “only once”?
I found a question regarding the Wedding option in the spell ceremony - What qualifies a creature as being "widowed" for the purposes of Ceremony? - but saw none about the other options.
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