Does Mage Armor Stack With Normal Leather?


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Sovereign Court

Well what do you think? I am guessing not, but maybe somebody out there can explain the rules chain???


Leather armour provides a +2 armour bonus.

Mage armour provides a +4 armour bonus.

Whenever you have more than one bonus of the same type, you use the higher one.

In this case, you have a +4 armour bonus.


Ninja'd!

Sovereign Court

Thanks! I just read the armor section and it was right there. Duh.


While it was already answered, here's a little more information:

Weirdly enough, you have to look in the Magic section to get the answer (CRB, page 208, third paragraph under "Special Spell Effects").

Bonus Types: Usually, a bonus has a type that indicates how the spell grants the bonus. The important aspect of bonus types is that two bonuses of the same type don't generally stack. With the exception of dodge bonuses, most circumstance bonuses, and racial bonuses, only the better bonus of a given type works (see Combining Magical Effects). The same principle applies to penalties—a character taking two or more penalties of the same type applies only the worst one, although most penalties have no type and thus always stack. Bonuses without a type always stack, unless they are from the same source.

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