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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lonely Tylenol" data-source="post: 3150789" data-attributes="member: 18549">Well, going back to my original point, I'd take the benchmark for whether something is armour as being whether or not it provides a non-magical armour bonus, even if that bonus is +0.  So if a shirt provided a bonus of +0 to AC, it would provide a -4 penalty to Fort saves versus high environmental temperatures, and would be enchantable.  I think that is a pretty good argument that most clothing provides no armour bonus of any kind, and is therefore unenchantable.  However, since heavy clothing does inflict the -4 penalty to Fort saves, it might indeed provide a +0 armour bonus.  Not that I'm claiming it does, but we basically have a single test here by which one can determine whether something he's wearing is armour, without actually attempting to enchant it: wear it in the desert.  If your T-shirt gives you a -4 penalty, you can enchant it.  If your fur coat does, it might or might not be enchantable.Edit: just to be clear, I don't think you could enchant masterwork clothing unless it was already armour.  So if you have a masterwork shirt that doesn't provide an armour bonus, you couldn't make it a +1 shirt, turning it into armour, because the enchantment only works on armour to begin with.And of course, bracers of armour (and the like) don't count as armour even though they provide a magical armour bonus, so they don't cause you to suffer the +4 penalty.  Which is why I stipulate that to be armour, it must provide a non-magical armour bonus.</blockquote>

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