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<blockquote data-quote="FrankTrollman" data-source="post: 1188335" data-attributes="member: 14225">If that were in fact the case - then the fact that the not stacking is &quot;usually&quot;, but the stacking is absolute - then spells wouldn't stack with themselves unless they gave a specific unnamed bonus.The only way there could be even a question that Death Knell doesn't stack with itself is if those two rules were entirely separate - otherwise the unnamed bonus stacking rule is the exception that is allowed by the &quot;usually&quot; in the wording of the same spells not stacking rule.There is no such rule for magic items - which is unsurprising as every magic item is unique and something which is game mechanically an Orange Ioun Stone could just as easily be a power-earring or those shoulder pads Lina Inverse wears.While every time you cast Death Knell it is recognizable as &quot;Death Knell&quot; - magic items can be anything at all that fits in the same slot and does the same thing. So there's really not supposed to be any identical wondrous items for this to be an issue with - and thus, no rule.-Frank</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FrankTrollman, post: 1188335, member: 14225"] If that were in fact the case - then the fact that the [i]not[/i] stacking is "usually", but the [i]stacking[/i] is absolute - then spells wouldn't stack with themselves [i]unless[/i] they gave a specific unnamed bonus. The only way there could be even a question that Death Knell doesn't stack with itself is if those two rules were entirely separate - otherwise the unnamed bonus stacking rule [i]is[/i] the exception that is allowed by the "usually" in the wording of the same spells not stacking rule. There is no such rule for magic items - which is unsurprising as every magic item is unique and something which is game mechanically an Orange Ioun Stone could just as easily be a power-earring or those shoulder pads Lina Inverse wears. While every time you cast Death Knell it is recognizable as "Death Knell" - magic items can be anything at all that fits in the same slot and does the same thing. So there's really not supposed to [i]be[/i] any identical wondrous items for this to be an issue with - and thus, no rule. -Frank [/QUOTE]

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