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<blockquote data-quote="thalmin" data-source="post: 6467260" data-attributes="member: 662">I am glad the rules don't exactly address whether or not the bonuses stack, and likewise say nothing directly about bypassing resistance. Such decisions belong to the individual DMs and their players.My personal take on magic bows and nonmagic weapon resistance: Either a magic bow of (say) fire does not need arrows but rather magically creates arrows (of fire) to shoot, or else the bow causes the ammunition to become magically empowered. If the latter, I must say the attacks bypass the resistance, even for just a simple +1 bow. If using the arrow-creation model, no arrows are even needed, so moot point.As far as stacking, magic items will be fairly rare in my campaign. If a character wants to use a +1 (or whatever) arrow in a magic bow, why not let them stack?I don't know how I want to rule on multiple, even conflicting, special abilities like bow of fire and arrow of ice. Probably use just the abilities of the arrows, but still let the +1's stack.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="thalmin, post: 6467260, member: 662"] I am glad the rules don't exactly address whether or not the bonuses stack, and likewise say nothing directly about bypassing resistance. Such decisions belong to the individual DMs and their players. My personal take on magic bows and nonmagic weapon resistance: Either a magic bow of (say) fire does not need arrows but rather magically creates arrows (of fire) to shoot, or else the bow causes the ammunition to become magically empowered. If the latter, I must say the attacks bypass the resistance, even for just a simple +1 bow. If using the arrow-creation model, no arrows are even needed, so moot point. As far as stacking, magic items will be fairly rare in my campaign. If a character wants to use a +1 (or whatever) arrow in a magic bow, why not let them stack? I don't know how I want to rule on multiple, even conflicting, special abilities like bow of fire and arrow of ice. Probably use just the abilities of the arrows, but still let the +1's stack. [/QUOTE]

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