ioun stones


Rules Questions

Sovereign Court

they are unslotted, and even though the provide enchancement bonuses, because of the no slot, do they stack with other items? like a +2 dex Ioun stone and a +2 dex belt?


enhancement bonuses do not stack, item slots have nothing to do with the bonus type.

Different ability scores would stack, say belt of DEX, headband of CHA and ioun stone of STR.

-Flash

Sovereign Court

didn't think they would. I'm on a mission to break some rules. striking out lol.

Grand Lodge

If your trying to maximize bonuses try spreading them out and getting feats that allow you to add your state bonuses. Like int to dodge or dex to cbm and the such. Don't just focus on one stat or one thing. For ac remember that all dodge stack. id go with headbands and belts for all stats and then look into trying to fill in all the types of bonuses you can get. There is a list somewhere of the different types of bonuses.


Link

Liberty's Edge

Captain Moonscar wrote:
Link

Hot damn, thanks for the link. That's awesome!


Austin Morgan wrote:


Hot damn, thanks for the link. That's awesome!

My search-fu is strong.

-Flash


Pathfinder Maps Subscriber; Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Superscriber; Starfinder Charter Superscriber
Nezthalak wrote:
they are unslotted, and even though the provide enchancement bonuses, because of the no slot, do they stack with other items? like a +2 dex Ioun stone and a +2 dex belt?

Some Ioun Stones stack with themselves, like a Crimson Sphere, which provides a +2 to Int and three of them will stack together for a bonus of +6 Int.


Mistwalker wrote:


Some Ioun Stones stack with themselves, like a Crimson Sphere, which provides a +2 to Int and three of them will stack together for a bonus of +6 Int.

You can have any number of Ioun stones but "Enchancment" bonuses DO NOT stack.

-Flash


Pathfinder Maps Subscriber; Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Superscriber; Starfinder Charter Superscriber
Captain Moonscar wrote:
Mistwalker wrote:


Some Ioun Stones stack with themselves, like a Crimson Sphere, which provides a +2 to Int and three of them will stack together for a bonus of +6 Int.

You can have any number of Ioun stones but "Enchancment" bonuses DO NOT stack.

-Flash

Please see Seekers of Secrets book, page 44, it clearly states that Crimson Sphere Ioun Stones stack (up to a maximum of +6 enhancement bonus to intelligence).


Captain Moonscar: Check page 44 of Seeker of Secrets. It specifically states you can do so in that particular case. At least the cost is correct (a +6 headband costs 36,000gp whereas 3 Crimson Spheres cost 72,000gp which since they are slotless is properly 2x36,000gp = 72,000gp).

- Gauss


I'll check when I get home, at work now. I was assuming you were talking about the CORE ioun stone's, didn't cross reference the Chrimoson Sphere part just the +2 Int. :p
but I think I remember something along those lines.

Side note:
I don't think that book is PFS legal. I heard something about the Faction Guide I think. Maybe?


This is asked in a rules forum not the PFS forum and as I don't play PFS I don't know. - Gauss

Grand Lodge

Captain Moonscar wrote:

I'll check when I get home, at work now. I was assuming you were talking about the CORE ioun stone's, didn't cross reference the Chrimoson Sphere part just the +2 Int. :p

but I think I remember something along those lines.

Side note:
I don't think that book is PFS legal. I heard something about the Faction Guide I think. Maybe?

Seekers of Secrets not only is legal but was within the PFS core assumption when published, although it's now been moved out of the core in favour of the Pathfinder Society Field Guide. From PFS Additional Resources:

Quote:

Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Seekers of Secrets

Everything in this book is legal for play with the following notes. Equipment: ioun stones use method 1 for resonance and never use method 2. Additionally, only normal ioun stones have resonance—inferior ioun stones never do.

Some things (mainly traits) from the Faction Guide are also PFS sanctioned.

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