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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Anthony Jackson" data-source="post: 4390955" data-attributes="member: 73145">The masterwork armor rules seem to have two purposes:1) Cause PC AC to keep up with monster attacks, since there are rather few power bonuses to AC out there.2) Cause heavy armor AC to keep up with light -- otherwise, the fact that light armor gets a stat boost means it will improve by up to +4 relative to heavy armor by level 26.However, this creates weird problems where +4 heavy armor is 4 AC better than +3 heavy armor, which is a huge jump. To be fair, it seems like the armor types should be spread out. Suggestions on smoothing this out:Masterwork ArmorMasterwork armor, in addition to giving an enhancement bonus to AC, gives a masterwork bonus to AC. Masterwork armor has the same cost as an enchantment of 5x the masterwork bonus (heavy) or 15x the masterwork bonus (light) -- thus, +3 masterwork heavy armor and +1 masterwork light armor both cost the same as a level 15 magic item. Masterwork is, however, free on any armor that's higher level than the desired masterwork (i.e. level 16+ armor can be +3/+1 masterwork for free). The standard names for masterwork armors are as follows:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">+1 Light: feyweave, feyleather, or darkhide.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">+2 Light: starweave, starleather, or elderhide.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">+1 Heavy: meteoric iron</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">+2 Heavy: mithril</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">+3 Heavy: forgemail, wyrmscale, or warplate</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">+4 Heavy: adamantine</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">+5 Heavy: abyssal steel</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">+6 Heavy: spiritmail, elderscale, or godplate.</li> </ul>So, does this all sound reasonable? Better names for the intermediate grades? Is the ability to have low enhancement masterwork armors useful?</blockquote>

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