Morale Bonus to AC

[rustediron]

Anyone know how this works? I found a Divine Protection (Custom Level 2 Paladin Spell) dropped by a monster, so I read the description and thought it would be worth making a wand of it.

It cost me 3k, which I thought was worth the +1 AC morale bonus and +1 to saving throws to allies within 20' it promised me, so I then tried casting it on myself to see what happens :S

Unfortunately, my AC didn't change, but when I cast it on my summoned zombie, lo and behold, its AC increased by 1 (though again, mine remained unchanged).

So that leads me to ask, with what do AC morale bonuses stack/don't stack?

[Thief Of Navarre]

No idea, I thought the Bard's Inspire Defense was a morale bonus to AC which stacks with everything :S

[Grae]

+1 Placebo effect?

"See? Look how he fights after I waved that stick at 'im!"

[BrylliantInsnity]

I'm going to imagine it has to do with this "+1 AC morale bonus and +1 to saving throws to allies within 20' " AKA: everyone but the caster.

[Demathos]

I had thought of that upon reading the post, though the OP stated that once he had casted it on his zombie, the zombie did in fact acquire the +1 AC, itself.

[BrylliantInsnity]

I'm willing to wager it follows the other rules of the current system. It will stack with anything but a greater bonus of the same type. So, it should stack with anything but a +2 or greater morale bonus spell, but it will effect only the casters allies and not the caster.

This is my theory..I'm too lazy to prove it, gogo do it for me.

[Kaeldorn]

If you took the (ridiculously overpowered) 'Luck of Heroes' background feat, it's likely not to stack with that. That's also a morale AC bonus..

[Elusa]

2 points:

Divine Protection says "to allies" implying it doesn't affect the caster.

Luck of Heroes is supposedly a luck bonus to AC. Meaning it should stack with everything, considering there are no other sources of luck bonuses.

[Thief Of Navarre]

Apart from the Luck spell ofc

Or was that got rid of in 2e? I forget -.-