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A Manual of Gainful Exercise+1 is a wonderful thing, but a +4 is always better. So my question revolves around the use of said types of Tomes and Manuals.
I know each of them is a one time use item. But later in a PC's career should they find another +4 Manual of Gainful Excercise, would they be able to use this new one like they did the old one to get a boost to thier stats?
This is a problem I had back in 3rd with a Munchkin-like player whom was a good soul, but very... well annoying when he played his Fighter.
Having gained the benefit of a +2 to his Strength last time he used a Manual of Gainful Excercise +2, at level 18 he finds in a dragon's treasure, a Manual of Gainful Excercise +4, he used it between games to apply the +4 to his Strength, so next time we played his might and ego were even bigger.
Then he found another Manual of Gainful Excercise +4 at 20th level.
It became a slight arguement of wether or not he could benefit from this books magic like others in the past. My players voted no.
With the exception of him of course. I feel this is a good question, any input would be helpful.
Thanks in advance!
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Is it intended? Who can say. Should you allow it? Up to you.
If you don't want to allow it, here's your reason: the manuals grant an inherent bonus to an ability score. Because bonuses of the same type don't stack, the player can only gain the highest available bonus.
In your case, he can gain the benefit of one +4, but not two.
Edit: Upon further reflection, I think it is not allowed, for the reason stated above.