Scatterlight Suit (Tech Guide) and wearing multiple armors

[Derek345]

I'm pretty sure I know the answer to this, but I'd like to make sure I haven't overlooked anything. Wearing multiple suits of armor would normally be a bad idea because the bonuses don't stack and the penalties do (these are the basic rules for bonuses and penalties not armor specific rules).

The Scatterlight Suit

Spoiler:

A scatterlight suit is a tight, form-fitting suit of highly reflective polymers and synthetic metal fibers. It's designed to reflect beam weapon attacks, and provides only minimal protection against physical damage. Activating a scatterlight suit is a standard action; once activated, the suit diffuses and blurs light reflected from its surface, making the wearer appear hazy and indistinct.

While active, a scatterlight suit increases the wearer's touch AC by a variable amount—this bonus is an armor bonus, but does not increase the wearer's normal or flat-footed AC beyond the scatterlight suit's baseline armor bonus of +1. This bonus to touch AC only applies to attacks made by beam weapons and rays—it does not provide additional protection to other touch attacks.

Provides an armor bonus of up to 9 on ray and beam touch attacks (where you normally would not get an armor bonus) for a check penalty of -1 and a max dex of 8 (highest possible) and could in theory be masterworked for no penalty. Since you don't normally get an armor bonus against touch attacks wearing this plus your normal suit of armor should give both bonuses.

Now obviously this could be overwritten by GM fiat, but am I overlooking something in the rules?

[Jeff Merola]

As far as I can tell you're fine doing that. I did that with my Iron Gods character, actually. You just have to remember to turn the suit on ahead of time, which isn't a huge problem.

[Malwing]

Huh. I never thought of that. I would be sure that you can't wear more than one suit of armor but I can't remember if that's explicitly stated.

[Jeff Merola]

Malwing wrote:

Huh. I never thought of that. I would be sure that you can't wear more than one suit of armor but I can't remember if that's explicitly stated.

You explicitly can, you just only get the better of the two armor classes (rather than stacking them) and you get the penalties of both.