Looking for a book on armor.

[Jdvn1]

If you're looking for WotC material in this regard, alternate materials can be found in the complete books and alternate masterwork qualities can be found in the DMG2.

 

[genshou]

If you're looking for WotC material in this regard, alternate materials can be found in the complete books and alternate masterwork qualities can be found in the DMG2.

There's also the Arms & Equipment Guide if you're going to WotC route. It has a decent list of new armor materials.

 

[Taluron]

The Rokugan book has 4 levels of masterwork for non-magic items.

 

[The Sigil]

The Heroes of High Favor series (Dwarves, Elves, and Half-Orcs) from Bad Axe Games has some.

The Enchiridon of Treasures and Objects d'Art from ST Cooley Publishing (PDF available at RPGNow) has some, too, including many (perhaps all? I haven't checked) from the Heroes of High Favor series.

I like the masterwork components a lot, and use them in my current game.

The Enchiridion of Treasures and Objects d'Art has the "good" enhancements from HoHF: Dwarves and HoHF: Elves (thanks again to Benjamin Durbin, who was gracious enough to work with me on including the ones from Elves, even though Elves was still "in development" when I approached him about it; I know I had access to the stuff in there a couple of months before Elves was published) but does not have (IIRC) the "bad enhancements" from HoHF: Orcs (i.e., making things cheaply). HoHF: Halflings came out sufficiently long afterwards that nothing from there made it into the Enchiridion. I also included much from Arms & Armor (3.0, not 3.5) in the Enchiridion (with a requisite thank-you to Jim at Bastion Press as well).

I think in total I put together about 50 masterwork-type enhancements, many of which stack, and around half of which were new (i.e., not pulled from other sources), but I haven't counted them for quite a while, so don't hold me to those numbers (I'm answering from work, otherwise I'd pop it open and check, but I don't keep a copy at work for obvious reasons).

--The Sigil