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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nhl_1997" data-source="post: 1693297" data-attributes="member: 22380">I just don't think that the bane ability should stack with Greater Magic Weapon.  Of course, I'm not saying I'm right, and I can certainly see the logic reasoning why it should:GMW (via Magic Weapon):"Gives a +1 / four caster levels enhancement bonus on attack and damage rolls."  Note: technically, this does not say it grants the enhancement bonus to the weapon, but it's not too much of a jump to assume it does.Bane:"... its effective enhancement bonus is +2 better than its normal enhancement bonus (so a +1 longsword is a +3 longsword against its foe)."  Note: "its" in this sentence does specifically refer to the weapon (but the technicalities are not my argument).In my opinion in this situation, the longsword has a +3 enhancement versus giants.  Since the GMW spell grants a +4 bonus, it supercedes the bane bonus.In conjunction with the secondary question concerning epic damage reduction, I think it's a bit cheap to bypass epic DR with an ordinary magic weapon plus an ordinary (high caster level but non-epic) 3rd/4th level spell. Just my opinion, please don't bite me too hard (although I'm willing to take a few hits seeing as I'm the only person thus far to see it this way  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  )</blockquote>

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