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<blockquote data-quote="Halivar" data-source="post: 1172572" data-attributes="member: 9327"><p>Every time armor is magically enhanced, that enhancement is classified as either an armor bonus, a deflection bonus, a concealment bonus, a natural armor bonus or a luck bonus (there are others, which I forget). Bonuses of different classifications stack, but those of a similar classification do not. It's based purely on play-balance, not on any real-world reasoning. It's just how WotC decided to write the rules. </p><p></p><p>For instance, wearing two rings of protection does no good; only the strongest one counts (I cry over this periodically <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> ). Bracers of armor provide an <em>armor</em> bonus, similar to the kind you would put on your own armor. Since wearing both bracers of armor and enchanted armor won't stack, you would just take the strongest one.</p><p></p><p>Bracers of armor, I believe, were for spellcasters and others who could not wear armor of any kind, and thus could not get an armor bonus any other way.</p><p></p><p>Alternatively, you could just wear regular nonmagical armor and some +4 bracers of armor, but it won't be any cheaper. Still might want to look into that.</p><p></p><p>A way around this is to use a one-handed weapon and carry a heavily enchanted shield, since all magical affects on the shield stack, even if they're the same classification as your armor bonus.</p><p></p><p>Hope that helps.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Halivar, post: 1172572, member: 9327"] Every time armor is magically enhanced, that enhancement is classified as either an armor bonus, a deflection bonus, a concealment bonus, a natural armor bonus or a luck bonus (there are others, which I forget). Bonuses of different classifications stack, but those of a similar classification do not. It's based purely on play-balance, not on any real-world reasoning. It's just how WotC decided to write the rules. For instance, wearing two rings of protection does no good; only the strongest one counts (I cry over this periodically ;) ). Bracers of armor provide an [I]armor[/I] bonus, similar to the kind you would put on your own armor. Since wearing both bracers of armor and enchanted armor won't stack, you would just take the strongest one. Bracers of armor, I believe, were for spellcasters and others who could not wear armor of any kind, and thus could not get an armor bonus any other way. Alternatively, you could just wear regular nonmagical armor and some +4 bracers of armor, but it won't be any cheaper. Still might want to look into that. A way around this is to use a one-handed weapon and carry a heavily enchanted shield, since all magical affects on the shield stack, even if they're the same classification as your armor bonus. Hope that helps. [/QUOTE]
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