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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hellefire" data-source="post: 3089080" data-attributes="member: 28129">Well, I'm understanding more of the 3.x thing every day, but I am a bit confused about stacking issues.Going off PHB 3.5 page 136 and DMG 3.5 page 21 - It states in the DMG that only dodge bonuses and certain circumstance bonuses stack, and the same is implied in the PHB (by wording in the dodge bonus section).However, enhancement bonus 'represents an increase in the strength or effectiveness of a character's armor or weapon' (DMG, pg 21).Which makes it sort of a meta-bonus, since there are bonuses for each of shield and armor. So we have an enhancement bonus to an armor bonus. And an enhancement bonus to a shield bonus.So, while (most) bonuses don't stack, should I take that to mean that you can have one enhancement meta-bonus for each thing it can affect? I mean, I assume you can stack +2 plate mail with a +3 shield, but that's just because it has always been the way it's worked. Those are both enhancement bonuses, but they stack because they are affecting different, um, things?Are there any other 'meta' bonuses like that? Which don't affect a character, but different bits of his gear or what not, and which can effectively stack with one bonus on each item?Which brings me to the reason I was looking up the rule in the first place. What about deflection bonuses? It doesn't say they stack, so should I assume they don't? As in, rings of protection provide a deflection bonus to AC. So a character could use 2 rings, but not two rings of protection, because they have the same bonus type on the same thing, and thus only the highest would function?Thanks!Aaron</blockquote>

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