question about magic and specific armors


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I recall a thread I posted awhile back, in reference to generating armors, in which someone expressed that if you rolled a specific armor after rolling that it would be magic and have a special ability, that that was impossible, that specific armors were specific and couldn't be modified and such, however looking more so now, this seems inaccurate, cause specific armors just appear to be not normal armors, armors that were crafted in some different way, mithral shirt for example, is just a chain shirt made from mithral, so where would the impossibility be that a chain shirt of mithral couldn't be a mithral shirt +1 or higher?


alkatrazshock wrote:
I recall a thread I posted awhile back, in reference to generating armors, in which someone expressed that if you rolled a specific armor after rolling that it would be magic and have a special ability, that that was impossible, that specific armors were specific and couldn't be modified and such, however looking more so now, this seems inaccurate, cause specific armors just appear to be not normal armors, armors that were crafted in some different way, mithral shirt for example, is just a chain shirt made from mithral, so where would the impossibility be that a chain shirt of mithral couldn't be a mithral shirt +1 or higher?

also note that this isn't a question on if it could be generated randomly this way, more of a question as if its possible to exist at all, and therefore be bought or created personally, not generated technically


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AFAIK, outside of PFS there is nothing stopping you from adding addition powers or abilities to any of the listed special armors. Mitral armors are automatically masterwork, so it seems like they would be a perfect platform on which to add some pluses and eventually other abilities.

Of course, your DM must OK any of your crafting plans. If you are the DM, then anything you want to allow is valid.

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