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Stacking enhancements on armor
« on: April 30, 2010, 10:14:40 AM »
I need some advice from other DMs. Would you allow a piece of armor to be enhanced with a +2AC and the glamered special ability? In my mind, both are an 'enhancement' and any one item can only have one enhancement. Thoughts?
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Re: Stacking enhancements on armor
« Reply #1 on: April 30, 2010, 10:37:02 AM »
Taken directly from the link that you provided in your own post:

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In addition to an enhancement bonus, armor may have special abilities.

The key phrase being "in addition".

On a similar note, nowhere in the rules is it stated that an item can only have one enhancement. The only limit to enhancements that I'm aware of is the +10 cap that I've quoted for reference below (also from the same link).

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A suit of armor cannot have an effective bonus (enhancement plus special ability bonus equivalents) higher than +10.


However, even if you've house-ruled that armor can only have one type of enhancement, Glamered is a fairly harmless ability with a low flat-rate cost (rather than the scaling "+1 bonus" type costs), so I don't see why it would be a problem if you allowed it. It's not exactly going to break the game.

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Re: Stacking enhancements on armor
« Reply #2 on: April 30, 2010, 11:05:52 AM »
I need some advice from other DMs. Would you allow a piece of armor to be enhanced with a +2AC and the glamered special ability? In my mind, both are an 'enhancement' and any one item can only have one enhancement. Thoughts?
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Not only is it allowed, it is required that a suit of armor have an enhancement bonus before it can have a special ability.

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A suit of armor with a special ability must have at least a +1 enhancement bonus.
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Re: Stacking enhancements on armor
« Reply #3 on: April 30, 2010, 11:24:32 AM »
Ah I see, I might have skipped over that part. Thanks.

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Re: Stacking enhancements on armor
« Reply #4 on: April 30, 2010, 11:45:12 AM »
Well to continue in the same vein i have a question as well. How do the +x gp ones play into the scheme of things. Armor is limited to a +10 bonus total that is easy, but do the gp only ones count toward that or can i just stack every single one of them on the armor once i destroy the economy?
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« Reply #5 on: April 30, 2010, 11:57:31 AM »
Max value if I recall, but I don't know what it is.
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« Reply #6 on: April 30, 2010, 12:11:28 PM »
I believe you could stack any number of them on until you run outta cash.
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Re: Stacking enhancements on armor
« Reply #7 on: April 30, 2010, 12:26:28 PM »
Aha! MiC says 200,000 and under, not counting the cost of special materials, unless you want to get into epic level stuff, which probably has no cap then.
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Re: Stacking enhancements on armor
« Reply #8 on: April 30, 2010, 12:39:44 PM »
Aha! MiC says 200,000 and under, not counting the cost of special materials, unless you want to get into epic level stuff, which probably has no cap then.
Thanks. I always wondered about that. I really wish they would have done it all on a single system instead of 2 different ones that scale differently.
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