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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ARandomGod" data-source="post: 2187520" data-attributes="member: 17296">This depends. It's debated too. The most RAW interpretation says that 1) No, it does not stack2) They overlap in such a way that they might as well stack.Meaning, no, they don't stack. If you have one effect that grants temp HPs, and you get another, only the largest one at any time is in effect... "active". However, nothing says that other effects are dispelled, they're merely not active unless/until they become the largest effect. If for some reason (like damage taking away temp HP's) the spell that WAS largest becomes smaller, then any spell who's duration has not run out and is therefore still on you will become the largest one, and THAT one becomes the active spell.This is a common misinterpretation (or sometimes acknowledged as a house rule). Some people think or want the new casting to dispell the old casting. But really under RAW the less effective spell is still sitting there, waiting for it's opportunity to become the most effective spell.This is a more effective interpretation in an attempt to make them 'not stack'. Saying that once they become equal they'll both (all) take that one point of damage. There's nothing to really say one way or another for or against this. It *could* happen this way by RAW. I don't support the interpretation... as this way two or more temp HP's are being used for every HP of damage negated... but it's techically as valid as saying that they overlap and only ONE temp HP is negated for each HP 'absorbed' by a temp HP spell.And that's just completely invalid.For that matter, so would *my* version of overlapping meantioned above. You'd never have more than d10+10 (max caster level) temp HP's at one time, no matter how often you cast the spell.. ... but if you had cast that spell ten times the overlapping would absorb over 100 points of damage anyway. Since when one spell wore down another would immediantly take precedence.</blockquote>

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