armor stacking [Archive] - Wizards Community

armor stacking [Archive] - Wizards Community

Post/Author/DateTime Post
shanizar
09-27-05, 04:01 PM I'm currently playing a cleric and I have a question for the boards.

He's wearing a monk's belt and casts Luminous Armor which functions similar to mage armor in that it grants an armor bonus to AC. If he purchases bracers of armor, using the rules in the Arms and Equipment Guide to add special abilities to it. For instance Bracers of Armor +1 of light fortification.

What is the effect? Does he get the fortification? Or does he have to take all the abilities of the bracers OR all the abilities of the Luminous Armor.
windscar18
09-27-05, 04:06 PM Certain bonuses don't stack. Ex: Mage armor doesn't stack if you already have armor on because Mage Armor grants an armor bonus. Armor bonuses don't stack with themselves. That means that the Bracers of Armor don't grant you additional AC. However, they DO grant you the light fortification because light fortification is an "unnamed bonus" (It doesn't even explain it as a bonus).
Tyler Do'Urden
09-27-05, 04:49 PM He'd get the light fortification ability of the bracers and whichever armor bonus was higher (likely the spell).
shanizar
09-27-05, 05:12 PM k, thanx. Are there any rules that support this you can point me at? I thought the rules were that way as well, just didn't find any sources.

Post/Author/DateTime	Post
shanizar 09-27-05, 04:01 PM	I'm currently playing a cleric and I have a question for the boards. He's wearing a monk's belt and casts Luminous Armor which functions similar to mage armor in that it grants an armor bonus to AC. If he purchases bracers of armor, using the rules in the Arms and Equipment Guide to add special abilities to it. For instance Bracers of Armor +1 of light fortification. What is the effect? Does he get the fortification? Or does he have to take all the abilities of the bracers OR all the abilities of the Luminous Armor.
windscar18 09-27-05, 04:06 PM	Certain bonuses don't stack. Ex: Mage armor doesn't stack if you already have armor on because Mage Armor grants an armor bonus. Armor bonuses don't stack with themselves. That means that the Bracers of Armor don't grant you additional AC. However, they DO grant you the light fortification because light fortification is an "unnamed bonus" (It doesn't even explain it as a bonus).
Tyler Do'Urden 09-27-05, 04:49 PM	He'd get the light fortification ability of the bracers and whichever armor bonus was higher (likely the spell).
shanizar 09-27-05, 05:12 PM	k, thanx. Are there any rules that support this you can point me at? I thought the rules were that way as well, just didn't find any sources.