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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Empirate" data-source="post: 6150819" data-attributes="member: 78958">I strongly recommend that you check out the basic general stacking rules found <a href="http://www.d20srd.org/srd/theBasics.htm" target="_blank">here</a>.The gist of it: most modifiers in the game have a type. Modifiers of the same type don't stack. Modifiers of different types usually stack with each other. All you have to do is look up what kinds of modifiers apply.Bracers of Armor provide an armor bonus to AC. So does actual worn armor. Therefore, Bracers or Armor and e.g. a Chainshirt don't stack, but overlap (only the highest bonus applies). A Heavy Wooden Shield, or a Shield spell, on the other hand, provides a shield bonus. Since this is a different type of modifier, it stacks with the AC bonus provided by Bracers of Armor/Chainshirt.Note that there are some effects that provide untyped modifiers. These usually stack with all other (typed) modifiers, but don't stack with each other if they are from the same source. E.g., casting multiple Rays of Enfeeblement on the same target won't make it any feebler than one (untyped Str penalty, but from the same source); whereas casting a Ray of Enfeeblement followed by a Ray of Exhaustion will result in stacking untyped Str penalties.</blockquote>