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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LokiDR" data-source="post: 1064701" data-attributes="member: 6239">Two different spells grant the same bonus, should they stack?  If there were two different ways to increase your con, both unnamed bonuses, would you get all the HP from both?  Obviously, yes.  So, unless "temperary" is a type or they come from the same source, they stack as per the rules on stacking spell effects.Balance: this is tougher.  I remember the displaced, stoneskinned, empowered false-lifed mage as really annoying.  There has been an effort in 3.5 to lower the number of long term buffs, so stacking a bunch of temperary HP seems against the grain.But, are there really that many effects that grant temp HP?  In magic, I can think of transformation, aid, false life, and bears heart.  Only two of those are on the same list.  Even if you did let them all stack, it wouldn't be anything beyond a really high HP fighter.  Aid on top of bear's heart?  Do you even notice?  False life+bears heart, maybe, but that would only be a lot for 1 person and you need a druid and a mage to make it work.  I think there are more abusive combinations.  Streaching out the combat makes it more interesting.  We aren't talking about doubling the power of fireball, after all.</blockquote>