Masterwork armor in OCB's new inventory

[Dr_Ruminahui]

Sounds like a bug

Did you even read the rest of the thread? I'm guessing not.

 

[Hazard_53188]

Add me to the list of people that were confused by this change. Well shoot, I was thinking by AC was going to go up after the bug was corrected just to find out there wasn't a bug and I was getting the bonus all the time.

 

[Ryujin]

Indeed. I really like the idea here of even making the "basic" armors of each type effectively masterwork with sufficient enhancement bonus. It was always intended that all armor with a sufficient bonus would be masterwork (even were it magically enhanced by the players); that was built into the scaling of the game.

But previously, it was possible for a GM to misinterpret the rule and decide to deny players access to masterwork armors -- making PCs easier to hit than they should be and badly hosing heavy armor wearers who needed the large masterwork bonuses to keep up with light armor.

Which is why an explicit statement of that fact, via errata, was all that was really required.