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Do Rage Bonus to Damage and Bonus Damage derived from Fighting Styles stack?
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<blockquote data-quote="Kurotowa" data-source="post: 7551220" data-attributes="member: 27957"><p>The default case in 5e is that things stack. The catch is that you have to check the wording and make sure it's something stackable, because certain things were specifically designed to disallow it.</p><p></p><p>For example, if your Barbarian takes the Magic Initiate feat they can stack Mage Armor with Unarmored Defense for a crazy high AC, right? Wrong. Unarmored Defense is "Your AC equals 10 plus Dex mod plus Con mod" and Mage Armor is "Your AC equals 13 plus Dex mod". You can use one or the other, but there's nothing to stack. Compare that to Bracers of Defense, which is a bonus of "+2 to AC when unarmored and not using a shield" because it <strong>is</strong> intended to be combined with Unarmored Defense or Mage Armor.</p><p></p><p>Another example is the Extra Attack feature many classes have. It doesn't add a bonus attack but stipulates that you can attack twice with the Attack action, specifically to prevent multi-class PCs from stacking it. The only way to get a third or fourth attack is to be a high level Fighter whose version of Extra Attack has an extra clause.</p><p></p><p>So, don't expect there are rules against stacking (except temporary HP), but always make sure you read the actual text and don't go off a summery or memory.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kurotowa, post: 7551220, member: 27957"] The default case in 5e is that things stack. The catch is that you have to check the wording and make sure it's something stackable, because certain things were specifically designed to disallow it. For example, if your Barbarian takes the Magic Initiate feat they can stack Mage Armor with Unarmored Defense for a crazy high AC, right? Wrong. Unarmored Defense is "Your AC equals 10 plus Dex mod plus Con mod" and Mage Armor is "Your AC equals 13 plus Dex mod". You can use one or the other, but there's nothing to stack. Compare that to Bracers of Defense, which is a bonus of "+2 to AC when unarmored and not using a shield" because it [B]is[/B] intended to be combined with Unarmored Defense or Mage Armor. Another example is the Extra Attack feature many classes have. It doesn't add a bonus attack but stipulates that you can attack twice with the Attack action, specifically to prevent multi-class PCs from stacking it. The only way to get a third or fourth attack is to be a high level Fighter whose version of Extra Attack has an extra clause. So, don't expect there are rules against stacking (except temporary HP), but always make sure you read the actual text and don't go off a summery or memory. [/QUOTE]
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