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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lord Sessadore" data-source="post: 4580415" data-attributes="member: 57255">Come at it from a different perspective - the process of making armor masterwork doesn't have to occur when the armor is first crafted or forged.Here's how I interpret what the PHB says on masterwork armor: Once armor gets enchanted with enough magic, the magic actually permeates the physical material of the armor. In order to enchant something to +4 or +6, you use those techniques mentioned under each armor type in order to suffuse it with the necessary amount of magic to provide that extra protection.AV does throw a bit of a wrench into these works, admittedly. If you assume that the lower level masterworks always existed then it isn't much of a problem, but if you allow both the PHB default and AV masterworks to co-exist (for example, you can get either +3 plate or +3 Gith plate), then things get sticky. Also, with the variant masterwork armors presented in AV (ie - that there is more than one kind of masterwork armor for a given enhancement level) think of it as no different than the choice between Dwarven or Razor on a suit of Scale armor. When the enchanter performs the ritual, he chooses which masterwork property to convey to the armor just as he chooses which 'normal' magical property to convery to the armor.</blockquote>