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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gaiden" data-source="post: 1359614" data-attributes="member: 103">The site at to date (3rd post) is completely unhelpful in this matter.  General rules on stacking are not at issue here.  I presume everyone knows that mage armor and chain male do not stack and that dodge and mobility do.  It is the fine detail of whether or not two unnamed bonuses stack with each other if they are from similar sources when those sources are non-spells.  For example, the unnamed str bonus from death knell does not stack with the similar bonus from a second death knell.  However, it is entirely unclear whether the same apples for items.As far as I knew, in 3.0, defending bonuses (as I mentioned above) stack with eachother.  This lead to the problem, if you'll recall threads from a few months ago, of armor spikes, gauntlets, shield spikes and a primary weapon all stacking defending bonuses to grant an additional +20 to armor.  The consensus there seemed to be that in order to get the defending bonus to AC, the weapon had to be actively wielded that round.So, by extrapolation, unnamed bonuses do stack with one another even if they are all form the same source in the case of defending weapons.  By the rules, do the ioun stones stack with one another?  This is a bit of a moot point, as given the cost of the stones, most likely I will just rule that they stack regardless.  But for my own edification, I just want to know if the RAW apply the nonstacking of unnamed bonuses only to spells.BTW - the fact that ioun stones don't take up a slot is a bit skewed IMO when compared with most non-item wondrous items.  The fact that you have a rotating gem around your head that can be destroyed is a major drawback when compared to something like a pearl of power which you can just hold on your person.  In the case of ioun stones you have the roleplaying restriction of having a floating gem circling your brow (for good or ill, it is still a restrictioin) and the fact that the item is easily destroyed.  So that 30 K, to me, starts to look alot more like 30 K and not 15 K doubled for not taking up an item slot.</blockquote>

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