Stacking conditions

[Atalius]

I had a question in regards to stacking conditions. For example, if I cast Ray of Sickening on someone and that sickens the target, if I then during my next round cast Sickening Strikes do those two effects stack? Or if I cast a spell which gave my opponent the shaken condition and the following round cast a different spell which gave the shaken condition again.

[Lady-J]

sickend is not a condition that stacks normally so the target would only take the worst sickening condition

[John Murdock]

condition do not stack with themselves, you can only suffer one condition only once, but you can have multiple condition at the same time, if you use ray of sickening and reuse it it reset the timer of the condition, if someone else use it and is higher lvl then it reset the timer to that time since it is higher if its someone who is lower lvl it do nothing if the remaining time is higher

[blahpers]

The general rule is "overlap, don't stack". If you are sickened by spell A, then sickened by spell B, you are still merely sickened, not "double sickened"--the penalties are the same as though only spell A affected you. If you then dispel spell B, you are still sickened until spell A wears off.

[Matthew Downie]

Double-fatigued is exhausted unless otherwise stated. But I'm pretty sure there aren't any other conditions that say the same thing.

[Lady-J]

Matthew Downie wrote:

Double-fatigued is exhausted unless otherwise stated. But I'm pretty sure there aren't any other conditions that say the same thing.

fear effects mostly stack

[Matthew Downie]

Lady-J wrote:

fear effects mostly stack

Prove it.

[CsonTep]

Pathfinder Core Rule Book Glossary wrote:

Becoming Even More Fearful: Fear effects are cumulative. A shaken character who is made shaken again becomes frightened, and a shaken character who is made frightened becomes panicked instead. A frightened character who is made shaken or frightened becomes panicked instead.

[Matthew Downie]

You'd think they'd have put that information in the 'Conditions' section, not the glossary...

[Berti Blackfoot]

Yeah you have to read both, which is annoying. For a number of conditions some information is only one section.

I don't understand why there are even two sections to begin with (I suppose it has something to do with the limits of paper publishing. Now a glossary can be built out of links or references to paragraphs so there is no chance of the two entries differing with each other)