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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hypersmurf" data-source="post: 4059032" data-attributes="member: 1656">Glass's point:A character has a Wisdom bonus.  He normally does not add this bonus to his AC.An unarmored monk has the ability to add his Wisdom bonus to his AC.A lightly-armored swordsage has the ability to add his Wisdom bonus to his AC.A multiclassed monk/swordsage who is somehow both armored and unarmored has the ability to add his Wisdom bonus to AC, and this ability derives from two different sources.Either his Wisdom bonus is added to his AC, or it is not... but since it is only one bonus, it is only counted once no matter how many sources you receive that ability from.Now, this is different to RangerWickett's reading above, where "Wisdom bonus" is a named bonus.  Under that reading, the two abilities both allow you to add a different Wisdom bonus to AC, but since the bonus is named, it does not stack.  Under RangerWickett's reading, "Add Wisdom bonus to AC" and "Add Wisdom bonus to AC as a deflection bonus" results in twice the improvement, since "Wisdom" and "deflection" are two different named bonuses.  I'm assuming glass would still not permit them to stack, since it is still the single Wisdom bonus being added in both cases; it's just that one of the abilities that permits it to be added also reassigns its type, which would prevent it stacking with any other deflection bonus.Then, of course, there is also the Divine Grace type of bonus - "a bonus equal to the paladin's Charisma bonus".  I assume both RangerWickett and glass would allow such a bonus to stack, since it is an unnamed bonus, and while it is equal to the Charisma bonus, it is not, in fact, the Charisma bonus.-Hyp.</blockquote>

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