Questions tagged [stacking]
For questions about whether multiple effects stack on the same target.
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Is it possible to stack the damage done by the Absorb Elements spell?
The absorb elements spell says
The spell captures some of the incoming energy, lessening its effect
on you and storing it for your next melee attack. You have resistance
to the triggering ...
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Does the attack bonus from a Masterwork weapon stack with the attack bonus from Masterwork ammunition?
Does the attack bonus from a Masterwork weapon stack with the attack bonus from Masterwork ammunition?
For example, does the +1 attack bonus of a Masterwork Arrow stack with the +1 attack bonus of ...
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Does Iron Guard's Glare stack with itself?
The Devoted Spirit Stance Iron Guard Glare reads:
While you are in this stance, any opponent that you threaten takes a
-4 penalty on attack rolls against your allies. Tome of Blades p. 59
Let's ...
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Do Paladin Auras of Differing Oaths Stack?
If multiple paladins (say an Oath of the Ancients paladin and an Oath of Devotion paladin) are in close proximity, do the effects of Aura of Devotion and Aura of Warding both apply?
Or does their ...
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Do the rules for combining magical effects apply to non-spell effects?
In the chapter on Spellcasting, there is a section called "Combining Magical Effects". However, despite the seeming generality of the title, the text of this section only talks about magical effects ...
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Do the benefits of Oil of Sharpness stack with those of +X magic ammunition?
Do the benefits of oil of sharpness stack with those of +1/2/3 magic ammunition?
I'm really just curious whether these also stack as +X ammo does with a +3 bow, or if there's a point at which things ...
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Do movement bonuses from different sources stack?
Do fast movement bonus from the Monk and Bloodrager stack with the elemental movement bloodline power bonus of the Sorcerer?
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Do skill bonuses stack?
Are skill bonuses always cumulative?
If I have an item giving me +10% Charm and another item giving me +20% Charm, do I now have +30% Charm, or do I just take the highest bonus?
Likewise, if I have ...
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Can you wear Bracers of Armor or an Amulet of Natural Armor with Dragonscale Husk?
Dragonscale Husk, from Dragon Magic, is a cool alternate class feature (ACF) for characters with dragon blood and proficiency in heavy armor. It's useful for a lot of reasons: decent defenses that ...
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Can you stack a Greater Dragonsong another Greater Dragonsong, or with Bardic Music?
Bardic music is one of my favorite abilities, but the rules on what is and isn't bardic music and what stacks versus what doesn't can be frustratingly vague. Did you know that it's not actually ...
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What happens when my aasimar Celestial warlock has overlapping class and racial features?
If you are a Aasimar warlock who's otherworldly patron is The Celestial you will know the light cantrip from both race and class. Additional once your reach 6th level in warlock you will have have ...
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How do you deal with sneak attack if you multi-class in classes with sneak attack? [closed]
How do you deal with sneak attack if you multi-class in classes with sneak attack? I understand that for now the rogue is the only class with sneak attack, but i we're using 3rd party and home brew ...
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Can you gain the benefit of multiple copies of a tome in Adventurers League?
In Adventurers League, can a character read multiple (different but with the same name) unused Tomes of Understanding? Do their effect stack?
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Does a monk get cumulative bonuses to proficiency and unarmed movement each level?
As a monk levels up, the monk table says they get the following:
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\textbf{Level} & \textbf{Proficiency Bonus} & \textbf{Martial Arts} & \textbf{Unarmored ...
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Can I apply multiple doses of Basic Poison to a weapon and get a cumulative effect?
Suppose I have two vials of Basic Poison:
You can use the poison in this vial to coat one slashing or piercing weapon or up to three pieces of ammunition. Applying the poison takes an action. A ...
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Do features that allow you to add twice your proficiency bonus, under some other name, stack with Expertise?
Do features that allow you to add twice your proficiency bonus, under some other name, stack with Expertise?
For instance, dwarves' racial Stonecunning trait, with bards' Expertise as applied to ...
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If you cast Blindness/Deafness on the same creature twice, what conditions are applied?
After researching into how spell effects stack, I find some ambiguity regarding certain spells that have multiple possible effects.
Notably, this answer regarding stacking spell effects contains ...
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How do two castings of Mirror Image interact when one starts losing illusory duplicates?
Inspired by this question: Can you cast Mirror Image twice on successive turns and have 6 duplicates of yourself instead of 3?
Mirror Image (PHB, pg. 260) says:
Three illusory duplicates of ...
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Can you cast Mirror Image twice on successive turns and have 6 duplicates of yourself instead of 3?
Mirror image (PHB, pg. 260) is a spell that has a casting time of 1 action, and a duration of 1 minute. My question is, can you cast Mirror image twice on successive turns, gaining 6 images by turn 2?
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Are there any rules about layering two (or more) sets of armour?
Layering armour was common, historically, for those who could afford it. Which lead me to the realization that I can't recall any rules prohibiting layering armour.
Although the d20 System is an ...
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Does Immunity Stack?
So I've got a guy who's playing an "elemental" character with the Insubstantial 3 (Fire-Energy) power. He already has Fire Immunity 5, so when he "flames on" does the Fire-immunity of the ...
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Stacking acid damage from weapon [closed]
My GM gave me a spear, which appears to be a homebrew item. It does 2d4 acid damage for 1d4 rounds in addition to the normal 1d8 base damage. If I attack a foe with this weapon each round how does the ...
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Does a monk's Unarmed Strikes deal 2d4 damage if they have the Tavern Brawler feat?
If a monk gets the tavern brawler feat, does his martial arts damage stack with the 1d4 damage given with tavern brawler?
For example: could a 1st level monk deal 2d4 damage with his unarmed strikes ...
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Do multipliers stack additively or multiplicatively? [duplicate]
For example: haste doubles your speed, boots of speed double your speed, and the Dash action doubles your speed.
Intuitively, it should be 2*2*2 = 8 times movement speed. However, the Dash action ...
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Does everything that eases a task, but is not listed as an asset, stack with other 'untyped' eases?
The rules as interpreted in this question:
Is the maximum a task difficulty can be eased 4 without applying Effort?
state that you cannot ease a difficulty by more than 2 levels with assets, however ...
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How do these effects stack?
Some days ago we were talking with some friends about builds and a friend of mine told us about a monk build where you got Colossal++++ unarmed damage.
The main points of the build were:
Improved ...
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In Tyranny of Dragons, do the effects common to all Dragon Masks stack if you attune to more than one?
In the Tyranny of Dragons storyline, do the effects common to all Dragon Masks stack if you attune to more than one?
I'm specifically interested in Draconic Majesty, but would like answers for all of ...
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If I have Charm of Wisdom and Lore of Escape, do I add my Wisdom modifier twice to Bluff checks?
In the character generation process for the Inquisitor class, I was faced with a question, the answer to which I'm not entirely sure.
I used Conversion Inquisition, which grants me:
Charm of ...
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Do multiple lantern archon's Aura of Menace debuffs stack? [duplicate]
I summoned six lantern archons. They each have the ability Aura of Menace with a save DC of 13:
Aura of Menace (Su) A righteous aura surrounds archons that fight or get angry. Any hostile creature ...
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Can you stack the speed reduction from Ray of Frost?
If I hit you with Ray of Frost, and my friend hits you with Ray of Frost immediately after, do you have your speed reduced by (10x2=)20 until the start of my next turn?
Or do you only lose 10 speed ...
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Do the flaws gained in suffering from multiple instances of Indefinite Madness stack?
In Out of the Abyss, you gain levels of Madness due to certain events. Every time you fail, the Madness level increases, just like Exhaustion level:
Level 1 Madness gives you Short term Madness - ~1 ...
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Does the Vrock Spores ability stack? If so, does a single saving throw end both?
Vrocks have a "Spores" action (with a recharge of 6) that releases a 15-foot-radius cloud of toxic spores:
Each creature in that area must succeed on a DC 14 Constitution saving throw or become ...
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Can a Hexblade warlock/Battle Master fighter use Armor of Hexes to make an attack miss, then use Riposte to attack after the enemy misses?
My DM allowed me to create a tabaxi warlock/fighter, taking three levels in Battle Master fighter before my character's nature of curiosity led me into a pact with the Hexblade warlock patron. I now ...
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Does a Pseudodragon's natural spell resistance stack with the spell resistance granted to familiars?
Pseudodragons have spell resistance 12.
As a familiar, at level 11, it gains spell resistance 16 that scales with the wizard's level.
Do the spell resistances stack?
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Rogue and Investigator multi-class—Do Studied Combat and Sneak Attack stack?
I am building a level 8 character that has 4 levels of Rogue Unchained and 4 levels of Investigator.
The classes have a similar, but not identical, feature:
Studied Strike (Ex) - At 4th level, an ...
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How you calculate a warforged barbarian's AC?
I am looking at the warforged AC calculation from the Integrated Protection feature, looking only at Darkwood Core (unarmored), for a possible warforged barbarian. (I am using the version of the ...
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Does the vorpal/defender rune also give a +X attack/damage bonus to a Moonblade?
One of the randomly obtainable runes on a Moonblade (DMG, p. 217) is:
The moonblade functions as a vorpal sword.
A regular vorpal sword has a +3 bonus to attack and damage rolls.
If you get the ...
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Can you benefit from a Ring of Spell Storing if you already have a Moonblade that functions as it?
One of the random possible runes on a Moonblade (DMG, p. 217) is:
The moonblade functions as a ring of spell storing.
I think there's a rule (at least enforced in Adventurers League, not sure if ...
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Repeated poisonous effects and conditions
I was reading through the "Poisons" section of the DMG chapter 8, and had the following questions:
If for instance a character is hit by a creature repeated times with the same poison (for example a ...
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SoP Staff, caster, and feat talent stacking
This is a rather cheesy question about min-maxing.
Staffs in SoP work a little differently than plain Pathfinder ones. The enhancement bonus applies to CL of the sphere effect, and extra talents can ...
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Combining Numerical Bonuses (addition and multiplication)
This question has already been asked for 5th edition, but 3.5 remains my first love and I can't find the answer for there either.
So you have multiple bonuses to, say, your ship's sailing speed. Some ...
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When a creature is hit with more than one fireball simultaneously, do they take damage from all of them?
Say a creature walks through a door and triggers two spell glyphs from two glyph of warding spells that are programmed to cast a fireball at the creature that walks through the door. Both glyphs are ...
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Stacking Size effects, what is the total buff?
On a separate question, here, it is agreed that casting giant form 2 on yourself, and then having legendary proportions applied stack, but my question is, what is the total of the buffs? I know size ...
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Does the UA Mystic's Tough Hide bestial transformation (+2 AC) stack with the UA Warforged's Composite Plating trait (+1 AC)?
Unearthed Arcana: The Mystic Class contains the most recent version of the Mystic class (v3).
One of the psionic disciplines listed is Bestial Form; one of its psionic effects is Bestial ...
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Do an Assassin's Assassinate and a Hunter's Colossus Slayer stack?
Character level 6 - Rogue / Assassin 3 and Ranger / Hunter 3
Assassinate. Starting at 3rd level, you are at your deadliest when you
get the drop on your enemies. You have advantage on attack ...
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Can enlarge person affect an eidolon that 's large due to evolution surge?
The spell evolution surge allows a summoner to grant his eidolon temporary evolution points that can then be spent so that the eidolon gains the evolution large.
An unchained summoner's eidolon can ...
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Does a spell made permanent by Permanency stack with another permanent version of itself?
This question was brought up recently by a player in our Pathfinder group who was planning to use the Permanency spell on the Resistance spell at later levels (applying the price for permanency and ...
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Do the fighting styles 'Close Quarters Shooter' and 'Archery' Stack?
I am attempting to convert one of my characters from 3.5e to 5e.
In 3.5, my character was a level 15 Wood Elf character was 4 Rng / 5 Wiz / 3 Arcane Archer / 3 Order of the Bow Initiate.
For 5e I ...
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Do multiple sources of counting as one size larger for carrying capacity stack?
I am currently mocking up a Goliath Barbarian, and was wondering if there is a limit to the amount of sources of "You count as if you were one size larger for the purpose of determining your carrying ...
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Do elemental damage bonuses from a magic arrow and a magic bow stack?
This came up in game the other night.
The player has a +1 bow of cold (+1d6 cold damage) he also has some magic and specialty arrows like Alchemists arrow (+1d4 fire damage).
I know that if someone ...
