Property Runes and being unarmored


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Grand Lodge Archives of Nethys

It seems by my reading that you cannot etch property runes on yourself if you are using explorers clothing and/or bracers of armor.

It seems like explorers clothing can only have potency runes (not resilient or property), and that bracers of armor can only have talismans.

Am I correct, or am I missing something?

Relevant text

Explorers Clothing:
Adventurers who don’t wear armor travel in durable clothing. Though it’s not armor and uses your unarmored defense proficiency, it still has a Dex Cap and can grant an item bonus to AC if etched with potency runes.

Bracers of Armor:
These stiff leather armguards grant you a +1 item bonus to AC and saving throws, and a maximum Dexterity modifier of +5. You can affix talismans to bracers of armor as though they were light armor


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From the section on runes:

CRB p.580 wrote:
Explorer’s clothing can have armor runes etched on it even though it’s not armor, but because it’s not in the light, medium, or heavy armor category, it can’t have runes requiring any of those categories.


That leaves you with Antimagic, Energy-Resistant, Ethereal, Glamered, and Slick for Explorer's Clothing. I can't find any rule stating that you can add Property Runes to Bracers of Armor.

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