Rules question: cost for large / unusual sized specific magic armors


Pathfinder Society


Hello,

I was wondering how pathfinder society deals with specific magic armors made for unusual creatures. For instance, say I want my large elephant animal companion to wear the "rhino hide" armor. Am I allowed to do that? Is the cost changed?

I know how to calculate the cost of basic MW armor and then enchant it, but here I am asking about the specific armors listed in the books.

Also, on this same line, if I wanted a large or huge animal to wear mithral, how would I calculate that? By raw it seems that a huge mithral chain shirt barding for an elephant would be (100*8)+300+1000=2,100. It seems really weird that the cost for a massive amount of mithral is half the cost of human sized chainmail or platemail.

Thanks for any help.

Grand Lodge 4/5

You cannot get barding made out of specific magic items in PFS.


Jeff Merola wrote:
You cannot get barding made out of specific magic items in PFS.

Is there a specific source for this? I kind of figured; I just wanted to read it to be sure I'm not missing something

Also, what about the cost of mithril armor and the like?

4/5 *

If it's not in a book, you can't buy it. Special materials are fine, you use the rules for barding, though, and not armor.


GM Lamplighter wrote:
If it's not in a book, you can't buy it. Special materials are fine, you use the rules for barding, though, and not armor.

Ok, so barding is basically a separate category of item from armor? This would eliminate the question of specific armors.

As far as special materials, do you add the materials cost after multiplying, as you do for the masterwork cost of mundane items? Or do you add it before? I've been looking through the threads and have seen the rules interpreted both ways, but have not seen anything definite at all.

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