Equipment Trick Rope and Masterworking (PFS)

[Maliphian]

I recently played the first steps as a Fighter 1 using weapon finesse and Equipment Trick Rope as his feats. The question came up about whether or not I would be able to masterwork the rope as a weapon (since it is normally a non weapon item). Equipment trick allows me to treat the rope as a weapon or improvised weapon, whichever is more beneficial to me, but I need to know if a rope can be masterworked (so that I can enchant it later as a normal weapon). Thanks

[Enevhar Aldarion]

You can get masterwork tools for use with various skills, so I do not know why you could not buy a masterwork rope as well. But you would have to buy it that way since you cannot upgrade anything from normal to masterwork in PFS play. I also have no clue how much a masterwork rope would cost or if there is even one listed to buy in any of the legal PFS source materials. Also, it would have to be a listed item to buy for PFS since you are not allowed to craft your own equipment in PFS either.

[Maliphian]

Enevhar Aldarion wrote:

You can get masterwork tools for use with various skills, so I do not know why you could not buy a masterwork rope as well. But you would have to buy it that way since you cannot upgrade anything from normal to masterwork in PFS play. I also have no clue how much a masterwork rope would cost or if there is even one listed to buy in any of the legal PFS source materials. Also, it would have to be a listed item to buy for PFS since you are not allowed to craft your own equipment in PFS either.

Yes I can get a masterwork rope, but if I attack with it (using it as a spiked chain for example as per the Equipment Trick) would I get the +1 to hit? Would I be able to enchant it, giving it a +1 or a weapon quality? Would I be able to buy a spellcasting use of Masterwork Transformation (http://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic/all-spells/m/masterwork-transformation)? I can treat a rope as a weapon so is that enough to do what I need?

[thoynan]

I'm buying a robe of infinite twine for my ET:rope Corsair 1 /four winds monk of the empty hand 1... but if i never cut the 10 foot hemp rope i use to attack, is my lash now magical?