Should cowering, blind, and stunned stack?

[lantzkev]

They essentially seem the same penalty to combat, ie you cannot defend yourself well so you lose dex and take a -2 to your ac.

"Blinded: The creature cannot see. It takes a –2 penalty to Armor Class, loses its Dexterity bonus to AC (if any)"

"Cowering: The character is frozen in fear and can take no actions. A cowering character takes a –2 penalty to Armor Class and loses his Dexterity bonus (if any)."

"Stunned: A stunned creature drops everything held, can't take actions, takes a –2 penalty to AC, and loses its Dexterity bonus to AC (if any)."

It seems a bit silly imo to stack all three on a creature or character and say they lose dex and take -6 to ac...

[SlimGauge]

I can see blinded stacking with either of the other two. If you're only blinded (say, by the light) and keep your wits about you, you can still try to use your other senses to do something like don your smoked goggles. But if you were blinded AND stunned, you wouldn't remember that they're right there on top of your head.

I might think that being stunned would prevent one from cowering, but that would make cowering some sort of full-round action of its own ...

[lantzkev]

to me the modifiers seem to all be part of "unable to effectively defend yourself"

with a standard no dex and -2 ac... but as it stands you can by raw stack em all, but it just doesn't sit right with me lol.