While wearing celestial armor, if mage armor is cast it does not stack since they are both bonuses to AC?
No, it doesn't. Mage armor is pretty much mage armor: useful if your a mage and well don't wear armor.
On the other hand, assuming you aren't using a shield either, you could always cast Shield which gives +4 Shield and deflects magic missiles, albeit a much shorter time.
Celestial Armor provides a total Armor Bonus of +9.
Mage Armor provides an Armor Bonus of +4.
Armor Bonuses don't stack, use the highest bonus.
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While wearing celestial armor, if mage armor is cast it does not stack since they are both ARMOR bonuses to AC?
Fixed that for you. Had you cast the shield spell instead of mage armor, then it WOULD stack, since celestial armor provides an ARMOR bonus to AC and the shield spell provides a SHIELD bonus to AC.
Only dodge bonuses, racial bonuses, circumstance bonuses (from different circumstances) stack with like-named bonuses. A +2 dodge bonus to AC from a feat would stack with a +2 dodge bonus to AC from a spell, for example. A +2 insight bonus from a feat would NOT stack with a +2 insight bonus from a spell, however, since it is not one of the three exceptions listed above.
Unnamed or untyped bonuses stack with everything, including each other.
Bonuses to different things do not interact with each other. For example, you could benefit from a +5 circumstance bonus to Stealth ANDa +2 circumstance bonus to attack rolls at the same time, since they apply to different things.
I hope that makes things nice and clear.
Bonuses to different things do not interact with each other. For example, you could benefit from a +5 circumstance bonus to Stealth ANDa +2 circumstance bonus to attack rolls at the same time, since they apply to different things.
I hope that makes things nice and clear.
A +2 insight bonus from a feat would NOT stack with a +2 insight bonus from a spell, however, since it is not one of the three exceptions listed above.
To be extra clear, if the +2 insight from the feat applied to something that the +2 insight bonus from the spell did not (let's say AC and then Attack Rolls), you could use both.
Kudos to RD on the breakdown, I thought of it, but dropped the ball.
It should be noted that you would get your full mage armor bonus against incorporeal enemies if you needed it, your AC just would not increase.