Psychic Warrior / Warforged Juggernaut

[Bloodweaver]

Ok, I have done some research on this and have not been able to find a diffinative answer. Either form the related books or from my endless google searches. My questions is this?

Does the "natural armor" bonus from being a warforged stack with psychic warrior manifestion of "Inertial Armor" ? And if so does the same combo work with the warforges' Adam/mithreal feat?

If so, then I would think a 1st lvl warforged psychic warrior would have a insane AC. Base AC 10 + Adam Feat 9 + Inertail Armor 4 + Shield 2 = 25 AC. And thats with no extra AC feats. (dodge, etc)

The Book description's are as follows:
Composite Plating: The plating used to build a warforged provides a +2 armor bonus. This plating is not natural armor and does not stack with other effects that give an armor bonus (other than natural armor). This composite plating occupies the same space ont he body as a suite of armor or a robe and thus a warforged cannot wear armor or magic robes.

Adamantine Body: Your armor bonus is increased to +8 and you gain DR 2/adam. However your base speed is reduced to 20 feet and you are considered to be wearing heavy armor. You have a +1 dex bonus to AC.

Inertial Armor (3.5 Expanded PsH): ..... The armor bonus provided by inertail armor does not stack with the armor bonus provided by regular armor.

So as you can see, my delima. Does the warforged "natural armor" fall within the bounds of what is considered regular armor?

Thanks any and all help on this.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Ok, I have done some research on this and have not been able to find a diffinative answer. Either form the related books or from my endless google searches. My questions is this?

Does the "natural armor" bonus from being a warforged stack with psychic warrior manifestion of "Inertial Armor" ? And if so does the same combo work with the warforges' Adam/mithreal feat?

If so, then I would think a 1st lvl warforged psychic warrior would have a insane AC. Base AC 10 + Adam Feat 9 + Inertail Armor 4 + Shield 2 = 25 AC. And thats with no extra AC feats. (dodge, etc)

The Book description's are as follows:
Composite Plating: The plating used to build a warforged provides a +2 armor bonus. This plating is not natural armor and does not stack with other effects that give an armor bonus (other than natural armor). This composite plating occupies the same space ont he body as a suite of armor or a robe and thus a warforged cannot wear armor or magic robes.

Adamantine Body: Your armor bonus is increased to +8 and you gain DR 2/adam. However your base speed is reduced to 20 feet and you are considered to be wearing heavy armor. You have a +1 dex bonus to AC.

Inertial Armor (3.5 Expanded PsH): ..... The armor bonus provided by inertail armor does not stack with the armor bonus provided by regular armor.

So as you can see, my delima. Does the warforged "natural armor" fall within the bounds of what is considered regular armor?

Thanks any and all help on this.

It doesn´t stack.

Inertial Armor grants an armor bonus, and the Warforged Composite Plating/Mithral Body/Admantine Body provides an armor bonus, and these don´t stack (as most bonus with the same name).
Inertial Armor basically is the Psionic equivalent of Mage Armor, and this wouldn´t stack with the Warforged armor bonus, either.

 

[Bloodweaver]

OK, I understand where your going with that. I guess I'm just hung up on the wording.

So then my next question is, what is and is not considered to be regular armor?

I mean you got:
Amor Bonus : Chain mail, field plate, etc
Deflection Bonus: Rings of deflection
Natural Armor Bonus: Amulet of Natural Armor
Dex. Bonus: Nuf said
...
Are all of these considered to be regular armor? And If so, what are some examples of non-regular armor?

Just looking for some clarification.. thats all.
Again thanks for all the help.

 

[Someone]

Where the bonus comes from doesn´t matter, but the name of the bonus. A full plate and a inertial armor spell both give Armor bonuses to AC, so they don´t stack; dodge bonuses are an exception. "Regular armor" probably refers to suits of armor (chainmail, breastplate, padded, etc) but not shields.

 

[CronoDekar]

Usually in the description for any magic items it will say "this grants a _____ bonus to AC," with the full list of types given on DMG pg. 20 (or at about the middle of the page here). Anything which is called "armor" (not to be confused with "natural armor") will not stack with armor. Bracers of Armor give an armor bonus so will not stack with the composite plating, but AC given by an Amulet of Natural Armor and a Ring of Protection (which is deflection) will. Spells which enhance AC will also usually indicate what type of bonus it gives. If the type isn't given in the description, then it stacks with everything (also, dodge bonuses are an exception to the normal rule -- they stack with each other).

For example, this is the text for Shield of Faith:

This spell creates a shimmering, magical field around the touched creature that averts attacks. The spell grants the subject a +2 deflection bonus to AC, with an additional +1 to the bonus for every six levels you have (maximum +5 deflection bonus at 18th level).

Since it is deflection, it will stack with armor, natural armor, and any other type. However, it will "overlap" with a Ring of Protection since they both give deflection bonuses. When two effects are said to overlap, you just apply the higher of the two bonuses to your AC.

Does that help?