[3.5] Stacking Shield AC

[sr.chimo]

1. Will a Tempest with Two Weapon Defense stack the TWD bonus with the Tempest Defense bonus (both are +1 bonus to shield AC)?

2. What happen if a character with TWD uses Animated Shield, will TWD stack with shield AC?

If both answers are YES.

3. Tempest Defense + TWD + Animated Shield will stack??

[Chronos]

Bonuses of the same type don't stack. If all of those are shield bonuses, then you'll only use whichever one is highest, and the others will be wasted.

[Nirhael]

1. My sources state that a Tempest Defense is a +x to "Armor Class", which means it would stack with TWD's Shield bonus.

2. Highest value overrides the lower one so they don't "stack".

3. Sort of.