Questions tagged [stacking]
For questions about whether multiple effects stack on the same target.
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Do I need to use the Arcane Grimoire as a spellcasting focus to gain its bonuses?
The description of the arcane grimoire magic item states (TCE, p. 120; emphasis mine):
While you are holding this leather-bound book, you can use it as a
spellcasting focus for your wizard spells, ...
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Do the swim speeds gained from Gift of the Sea and Gift of the Depths add together?
I made a warlock that gains 40ft of swimming speed due to the fathomless pact (Gift of the Sea).
If I now pick the Gift of the Depths Eldritch Invocation will they add up and result in a swimming ...
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If a creature with a fly Speed of 30 ft. has the Fly spell cast upon it, does it now have a 90 ft. fly speed, or only 60 ft. total?
According to the wording of the fly spell:
You touch a willing creature. The target gains a flying speed of 60 feet for the duration. When the spell ends, the target falls if it is still aloft, ...
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Is Flame Wisp cumulative with itself?
I cast Flame Wisp, than hit with a Strike. Now I have 2 wisps. What happens if I cast Flame Wisp again?
The new one overrides the old one, I have 3 wisps
The new one is added to the old one, I have 6 ...
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How do Wildfire + Burn It! interact?
Burn It! increases fire damage:
Your spells and alchemical items that deal fire damage gain a status bonus to damage equal to half the spell's level or one-quarter the item's level (minimum 1).
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Can an Armorer Artificer wear another set of armor with their Arcane Armor?
The Arcane Armor feature from the Armorer subclass has the following line:
“The armor continues to be Arcane Armor until you don another suit of armor or you die.”
If an Armorer Artificer is wearing ...
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In-world justification for stacking rules?
Inspired by this question on World Building, I'm curious if the bonus stacking rules from various editions of D&D have ever had an in-world justification published.
From what I've found, there's ...
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Do spells halving movement stack?
If a group of monsters were, say, Slowed and then subjected to Sickening radiance would their speed be one-half normal, or one-fourth?
Slow has, in part:
An affected target’s speed is halved...
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Can you stack AC bonuses with an Artificer's Infusions?
Can you stack AC bonuses with an Artificer's Infusions?
I get that you can't use the same Infusion on multiple items. However... does the Enhance Defense Infusion and Repulsion Shield Infusion stack ...
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Does a Warlock's Repelling Blast Stack with Lance of Lethargy?
Lance of Lethargy states:
Lance of Lethargy Prerequisite: eldritch blast cantrip
Once on each of your turns when you hit a creature with your eldritch
blast, you can reduce that creature’s speed by ...
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Does Scorching Weapons stack with Elementalist Shifter?
Scorching Weapons is a feat that adds 1 fire damage to your held metallic weapons. This damage explicitly does not stack with certain other fire damage (emphasis mine):
Scorching Weapons
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Can you stack Bracers of Striking and Necklace of Natural Weapons?
Let's say you play a monk or other unarmed character and wear both a bracers of striking and necklace of natural weapons. Magic Fang established that for the exclusive purposes of enchantment, unarmed ...
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Does bleeding damage stack?
As an operative I have Bleeding Shot and make level bleeding damage if I hit.
My question: what happens if I do bleeding damage after I hit the first shot. Does the bleeding damage stack?
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Do multiple instances of the Death Ward spell stack on the same target?
In most situations, spell effects of the same name do not stack, per the rule on combining game effects added in the errata for the DMG (p. 252):
[...] when two or more game features have the same ...
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Do the Psychic Strike soulknife class feature and the Greater Psionic Shot feat work with the Manyshot feat?
Can the Manyshot feat work to allow you to apply the Psychic Strike soulknife class feature and the Greater Psionic Shot feat to all the arrows?
The hang-up is that you are creating 3 arrows so you ...
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