Sacred fist and monk AC bonus


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Grand Lodge

Do the monk wisdom bonus to AC stack with the sacred fist? I had heard that there was an official ruling on it but I can't seem to find it. I need to know for pfs


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Nope.

Grand Lodge

Avoron wrote:
Nope.

Can you back that up with something or just nope


Read the link.


The rule is that you can't add the same attribute to the same thing more than once. That 'nope' is a hyperlink to the appropriate FAQ/response/whatever. Click on it.

Grand Lodge

Zhayne wrote:
The rule is that you can't add the same attribute to the same thing more than once. That 'nope' is a hyperlink to the appropriate FAQ/response/whatever. Click on it.

Sorry didn't realize it was a link but they do come from differ sources one is from the monks skills and the sacred fist comes from his deity


Doesn't matter. It's 'adding your WIS bonus to your AC', which you cannot do twice, period, full stop.

Sczarni

The FAQ was actually released after a discussion about this very combination.

EDIT: HERE is that thread. You'll notice "answered in the FAQ" at the top.

Scarab Sages

They both grant an untyped bonus equal to your wisdom modifier, so they don't stack.

That said, if you are a Monk 4 / Sacred Fist 8, you would have the +1 untyped bonus to AC from Monk 4, and the +2 Deflection Bonus to AC from Sacred Fist 8.

But you only get your wis bonus once.


For all intents and purposes it's easier to think of the bonuses as typed WISDOM bonuses. Same with all other ability bonuses. I haven't come across an example it doesn't work for.

Grand Lodge

They are both multisource "typed" untyped bonuses, and therefore, do not stack.

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