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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DracoSuave" data-source="post: 5705992" data-attributes="member: 71571">Stacking is something that happens with bonuses and penalties.Abilities that modify pushes are not bonuses.  They're simply effects that are triggered by the push, aka 'When you push an opponent, you may push them x additional squares.'  So yes, they 'stack', just luke multiple instances of additional damage 'stack'. But let's pretend for a moment these are bonuses, cause that seems to be where you guys are going with this. NONE of them are named bonuses and nontyped bonuses always stack.  So if you're treating them like bonuses, they stack just like bonuses.The way you reconcile it is like this:  As distinct events, they can have collateral effects that add up, but are not combined into on effect.  As an example of this principle, if I hit you for twenty damage, and then hit you for twenty more damage with a different effect, you've suffered a total of forty damage.  But, that damage isn't 'stacking' and it sure as hell doesn't 'overlap.'  They are distinct incidents, and are unrelated.So if I push you three squares, then push you again three squares, you may have been pushed six squares total, but those pushes didn't 'add up' or 'stack' or 'overlap' or anything... they're two seperate pushes that have nothing to do with each other, other than they may have resulted from the same attack.  One could have been part of the effect of that attack, another could have been triggered by the attack hitting, and a third could be triggered by the effect of the attack itself.  Or, two could have been triggered by the effect of the attack, and a third triggered by dealing damage.  Or whatever.  One attack can trigger multiple results.You have two seperate effects here.  One is the effect granted by Avalanche Action, and the other is the effect as part of the Hit text on Thunder Hammer.  You resolve Thunder Hammer's hit, and then because you hit, you trigger the feat as normal. The pushes don't 'stack' or 'overlap'... they're two seperate effects and two seperate events.  A dwarf, for instance, would reduce the Thunder Hammer push by one square, and then the Avalanche Action push by one square, because they are seperate effects.TL;DR:  If the concept of seperate effects being additive confuses you, stop using the word 'stack' and 'overlap' to describe things that are not bonuses.  Using them forces you to think of them as combining into one thing, when they are not at all combining.</blockquote>

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