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<blockquote data-quote="dcollins" data-source="post: 885178" data-attributes="member: 876">At this point I'm agreeing with JChung and Mike Sullivan. This is one of those frustrating cases where the precise wording is actually very specific and clear, but such an odd exception to the normal rules that no one wants to believe what it actually says. It's entirely explicit that this particular language is placing a limit on how its enhancement bonuses combines with other, non-enhancement bonuses (an exceptional case outside of normal stacking rules). There's some history to back this up, because the original AD&amp;D 1st Ed. Magical Vestment spell (Unearthed Arcana p. 36) in fact failed to function if armor was being worn, and only worked on normal clothes. It's at least conceivable that the designers did this intentionally, mostly keeping the tradition but opening it up to a low-level of armor stacking as well (up through light armor). I agree that this is a pretty poor way of getting it done. Ideally it should be a straight armor bonus applied only to normal clothes (if keeping tradition), or a straight enhancement bonus following normal stacking rules (if making it purely 3rd Ed.).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="dcollins, post: 885178, member: 876"] At this point I'm agreeing with JChung and Mike Sullivan. This is one of those frustrating cases where the precise wording is actually very specific and clear, but such an odd exception to the normal rules that no one wants to believe what it actually says. It's entirely explicit that this particular language is placing a limit on how its enhancement bonuses combines with other, non-enhancement bonuses (an exceptional case outside of normal stacking rules). There's some history to back this up, because the original AD&D 1st Ed. [i]Magical Vestment[/i] spell (Unearthed Arcana p. 36) in fact failed to function if armor was being worn, and [i]only[/i] worked on normal clothes. It's at least conceivable that the designers did this intentionally, mostly keeping the tradition but opening it up to a low-level of armor stacking as well (up through light armor). I agree that this is a pretty poor way of getting it done. Ideally it should be a straight armor bonus applied only to normal clothes (if keeping tradition), or a straight enhancement bonus following normal stacking rules (if making it purely 3rd Ed.). [/QUOTE]

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