Bulls Strength and Gauntlets of Ogre Power..

[Raflar]

I know that similar bonuses do not stack, however I ran into a situation with my group and we can't agree on...

If you are wearing Gaunltets of Ogre Strength (or Belt of Giant Str) which requires the Bulls Strength spell to create, can you stack an actual Bull Strength spell on the owner of the strength enhancing item???

In short do GoOS and BS stack?

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

They don't stack. Simply, the highest bonus is used and you ignore the lower one.

 

[Dingleberry]

Nope. Both are enhancement bonuses.

 

[The Souljourner]

It's not similar bonuses, it is simply that bonuses of the same type (luck, divine, armor, enhancement) do not stack (except for dodge bonuses, which always stack, and circumstance bonuses, which stack if the circumstances are different). Unnamed bonuses always stack with everything.

Gauntlets of Ogre Power give a +2 enhancement bonus to strength. Bull's Strength gives an enhancement bonus to strength (1d4+1 for 3.0, +4 for 3.5). If both are affecting you (it's perfectly fine to have both affecting you, even multiple bull's strength are fine) then only the highest enhancement bonus actually does anything. So if you get +4 from the bull's strength and +2 from the gauntlets, then you just get +4.

There are a couple sections on bonuses stacking in the PHB and DMG that pretty much just say what I've said here.

-The Souljourner

 

[dravot]

It's not similar bonuses, it is simply that bonuses of the same type (luck, divine, armor, enhancement) do not stack (except for dodge bonuses, which always stack, and circumstance bonuses, which stack if the circumstances are different). Unnamed bonuses always stack with everything.

Gauntlets of Ogre Power give a +2 enhancement bonus to strength. Bull's Strength gives an enhancement bonus to strength (1d4+1 for 3.0, +4 for 3.5). If both are affecting you (it's perfectly fine to have both affecting you, even multiple bull's strength are fine) then only the highest enhancement bonus actually does anything. So if you get +4 from the bull's strength and +2 from the gauntlets, then you just get +4.
-The Souljourner

It's not the worst thing in the world to have the spell cast on top of your gauntlets either. You get the benefit of the spell, and if someone drops a dispel magic on you, you still have the guantlets to back you up.

 

[Darklone]

Had a fighter in one group... he always had 3 Bulls strength on himself in 3.0...

Just once all of them got dispelled.

 

[Raflar]

Gauntlets of Ogre Power give a +2 enhancement bonus to strength. Bull's Strength gives an enhancement bonus to strength (1d4+1 for 3.0, +4 for 3.5). If both are affecting you (it's perfectly fine to have both affecting you, even multiple bull's strength are fine) then only the highest enhancement bonus actually does anything. So if you get +4 from the bull's strength and +2 from the gauntlets, then you just get +4.

Thanks. That's what I was trying to get across to my group. Now one man's voice gets a little louder with people (and rules) backing him up...