Masterwork costs doubled on size change?


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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Superscriber; Pathfinder Starfinder Roleplaying Game Subscriber

When making a large armor or weapon, the rules day to double the price over its medium counterpart. Does this mean you need to double the masterwork price component as well?

Sczarni

You double the base cost of the item before adding the masterwork quality. IE you add masterwork quality to a large weapon. You don't add large to a already masterwork weapon

Silver Crusade

The masterwork cost is a flat +300gp, no matter the size of the weapon.

Dark Archive

What if you make the item out of adamantine. Is that cost doubled?


Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Superscriber; Pathfinder Starfinder Roleplaying Game Subscriber
Victor Zajic wrote:
What if you make the item out of adamantine. Is that cost doubled?

Ultimate Equipment seems to indicate that it is.

Silver Crusade

Victor Zajic wrote:
What if you make the item out of adamantine. Is that cost doubled?

It's a flat 3000gp, and flat prices for armour.

Mithral is the only core special material that doesn't follow this pattern, and only for 'other items' which include weapons. This is because they didn't bother to cost mithral weapons in 3.5 because it do anything. Now that PF let's mithral count as silver they should have put a price for weapons, but they missed a trick.

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FWIW Giantslayer Book 5 has an encounter with the following treasure:

Anvil of Fire p. 34 wrote:
The cart contains 12 suits of Large masterwork half-plate armor (worth 18,000 gp total), 12 Large masterwork greatswords (worth 8,400 gp total), and 12 Large masterwork longswords (worth 7,560 gp total).

Those prices only make sense if the masterwork cost is doubled for Large arms and armor.


That's very interesting.

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