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Not everyone who is arguing for a looser interpretation of the druid metal armor taboo is saying that you are wrong for wanting to stick to a strict prohibition on using or gaining benefit without consequences, I think that's absolutely reasonable and supported if that's how you read the rules...

Sure, some would. Stealthiness is valuable, too.

Just to push back on this a little. I don't think it follows. A druid that doesn't want to have a frontline combat presence or a moon druid maybe? would probably prefer light armor and a good dex score over medium armor and a higher con score

Thanks for pointing out that table. Seeing that, it's even more surprising that they went the way they did in the Sage Advice clarification.

How would you do it? To me, multiclassing into druid in a "coherent" way would involve finding a druid circle, spending time with mentors, learning a new way of life, blah blah blah, and all the while you have a game you're trying to run with several other players. Even if they're not all...

I understand all that, but what do you do at level up? You have a whole party (4, 5, 9? characters) that could all potentially be making a major life change all in the same evening. Certain things can be done around a camp fire between adventuring days, but do you make a multiclass character...

That's fine, but my real question was about a different situation. If you had a character that was proficient with medium armor and using (for instance) scale mail, and you just happened to level the party up and your soon-to-be druid wanted to maintain the AC they've had all game, would you 1)...

Yeah... I don't know if it's correct, but the way I read it, you have to choose your source of THP, they're not additive. I think a Spores Druid who was within range of Unicorn Totem could choose to reject the THP and keep their symbiotic entity up, or they could let symbiotic entity go down and...

There are non-metal medium and heavy armor sets that exist in published material, but they are not items that one would come across often. All the non-metal medium armors that I'm aware of are special items with enchantments that may or may not come up in a typical adventure. I think if you...

Yes, this was a glib answer, but now I'm asking earnestly. Which god is it that demands that their adherents not wear metal armor?

but if he's a cool guy that mostly does the right thing then whatevs...

he regards nature as a divine force. "nature" doesn't have much to say about what clothes he puts on.

nevermind

I'm sorry to keep doing this, but if they wanted druid armor proficiency to disinclude medium armor made from metal it would have been incredibly easy to do it. The fact that they didn't means something. The text saying that they "will not wear it" has absolutely nothing to do with...

"will not wear" \= "is not proficient"

I like your consistency and persistance, but you keep making up meanings around the fringes and acting as though that's what the text says. You really are just making stuff up. It's not stuff that I necessarily disagree with, but it's made up...

...except that my druid isn't very religious. He's a philosophical druid, but not a pious one.

... but it doesn't... you're misreading the text. It wouldn't bother me if this was the text, but claiming that it is is just wrong...

I'd take it.

Stoneskin is good, but it's a concentration spell. It precludes a lot of the other things that make druids cool. It'd be nice if there was a middle ground.