Ability Enhancement Bunuses Stack?

[karash]

Would a +6 enhancement bonus to STR from a Belt of Giant Strength stack with a +2 enhancement bonus to STR from Gauntlets of Ogre Power?

Thanks

 

[Trine]

Nope.

 

[Pax]

Karash, the rule is quite simple: two bonusses with the same name, regardless of source, never ever ever stack unless one or both explicitly say they do.

There are a few exceptions -- Dodge bonusses, IIRC; also Circumstance bonusses from different circumstances.

But an Enhancement bonus is an Enhancement bonus, so no, they wouldn't stack.

 

[Hypersmurf]

Nor, indeed, with the enhancement bonus from Bull's Strength, the enhancement bonus from Divine Power, the enhancement bonus from the Strength Domain Granted Power...

Either would, however, stack with the Enlargement bonus from Enlarge, or the unnamed bonus from a barbarian's Rage.

Do you see a pattern?

Named bonuses don't stack with bonuses of the same name (with a few exceptions).

-Hyp.

 

[Dr. Zoom]

Correct, the answer is no. Enhancement bonuses to ability scores do not stack. That would also include the Bull's Strength spell.

 

[Hypersmurf]

I keep seeing the thread title and wondering if "Bunuses" is some obscure alternate plural form of "Bunny".

But that would probably be something like "Bunnices".

-Hyp.

 

[Kae'Yoss]

I keep seeing the thread title and wondering if "Bunuses" is some obscure alternate plural form of "Bunny".

But that would probably be something like "Bunnices".

-Hyp.

Is that like Hobbitses?


And Gauntlets of Ogre Power and a Belt of Giant Strength do stack - if you use them together with the Hammer of Thunderbolts