[Tim Gray]

Huh. I was just looking at the bit on supernatural weapons, armour, etc at the end of the equipment chapter. That tells you what they do, but not how you create them. It refers to the Imbue Item feat, so I go and look there. The description of the feat amounts to "you can do the stuff under supernatural equipment", with no clue how. Hmm. Thought of looking under the Craft skill, found some of the missing bits. So putting them together, I think the idea is to go through the process of making a masterwork item at a higher cost while in possession of the feat. But they could have actually said that somewhere.

The more I read the book, the more pockets of raw d20 ore I spot under the refined stuff.

For instance, the feats are still predominantly small tactical things rather than interesting story influencers. Maybe it's to keep conversion easy.