[RPG] If you have multiple situational racial save bonuses and are in a situation where they all apply, do they stack with one another

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So let's say your character gets hit by charm person. It has the enchantment (charm) and mind effecting subtypes.

You are playing a custom race made with the race builder rules in the SRD with 3 different racials – Stubborn, Resistant, and Dual-Minded:

Stubborn (2 RP)

Prerequisites: None.

Benefit: Members of this race gain a +2 racial bonus on Will saving throws to resist spells and spell-like abilities of the enchantment (charm) and enchantment (compulsion) subschools. In addition, if a member of this race fails such a save, it receives another save 1 round later to prematurely end the effect (assuming the spell or spell-like ability has a duration greater than 1 round). This second save is made at the same DC as the first. If the member of the race has a similar ability from another source (such as a rogue’s slippery mind class feature), it can only use one of these abilities per round, but can try the other on the second round if the first reroll ability fails.

Resistant (2 RP)

Prerequisites: None.

Benefit: Members of this race gain a +2 racial bonus on saving throws against mind-affecting effects and poison.

Dual-Minded (1 RP)

Prerequisites: Humanoid with two subtypes or race with half-construct or half-undead subtype.

Benefit: Members of this race gain a +2 bonus on all Will saving throws.

None of them state whether they do or do not stack.

Would all 3 of those apply?

I'm aware that the same effect from multiple sources typically does not stack; these all do the same thing but the conditions vary, so I wanted to check.

Best Answer

Yes, these all stack under the right conditions.

Namely, a Will save against a mind-affecting Enchantment (charm) or Enchantment (compulsion) spell. All Enchantment spells are mind-affecting by definition, and I sincerely doubt there are any that allow non-Will saves, though I could be wrong about that. Point is, when it is a Will save against a mind-affecting Enchantment (charm) or Enchantment (compulsion) spell, you get +6 to the bonus.

Resistant and stubborn offer racial bonuses, that is, “racial” is the type of the bonus. Usually, typed bonuses do not stack with one another, and you must use the greater bonus. However, the rule that says that is this:

The important aspect of bonus types is that two bonuses of the same type don’t generally stack. With the exception of dodge bonuses, most circumstance bonuses, and racial bonuses, only the better bonus of a given type works.

(Common Terms: Bonus, emphasis mine)

So racial bonuses do stack, along with dodge bonuses and “most” circumstance bonuses.

And dual-minded provides an untyped bonus, that is, it just says a “+2 bonus to all Will saves,” without giving that bonus a type. Untyped bonuses always stack with everything but themselves (e.g. if you cast the same spell on yourself twice, any untyped bonuses would not stack from the two spells).

Bonuses without a type always stack, unless they are from the same source.

(Same source)

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