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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Joshua Randall" data-source="post: 2462910" data-attributes="member: 7737">Like it or not, stacking modifiers are part of the game. This is explicitly mentioned in the rules -- stacking modifiers allow and encourage the players to make clever use of spells, magic items, and so on.I definitely agree that thematically, it makes sense for a bard to provide lots of morale bonuses. However, the bard's spell list is rather underwhelming already, so when two of his best buff spells (heroism and good hope) are redundant with a class ability he gains at first level -- that's just lame.Not completely redundant, no. But for a spontaneous caster with very limited spells known, the bard can't afford redundancy.Since this is the Rules forum and not the House Rules forum, I'm not going to propose any workaround to this situation. I'll simply stand by my original post: that bards would be more effective at buffing if they (like every other spellcasting class) could stack bonus types.</blockquote>