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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 6346276" data-attributes="member: 1465">It has to be noted that there is often quite a difference between skills/checks and attacks/saves.Stacking bonuses in 3e irritated a lot of people, but in the context of skills/checks it didn't just serve the purpose of improving the odds to your favor (which it does with attacks/saves) but also and sometimes mainly the purpose of letting you reach a higher DC, that was otherwise impossible.Unfortunately advantage never increases your max result, no matter how many you stack. So with this house rule you only achieve the benefit of increasing the odds.IMO it's already quite too easy to gain advantage in 5e, so I'd proceed with caution before using this house rule... at least don't allow actual "stacking" i.e. don't allow 2 sources of advantage to let you roll 3d20 and take the highest, or 3 advantages equal 4d20. Stop at checking if the sources of advantage are more than the sources of disadvantage, and roll max 2d20 in that case. IOW, you can say that advantage and disadvantage cancel each other on a one-on-one basis, but overall the result is just net advantage, net cancel, or net disadvantage.</blockquote>