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The comment before was mine and it was in the context of casting it on one's self. My question is why bother casting it on one's self instead of just using Shapechange? I don't really see what the advantage that is being sought? In AD&D, an elf would look to do something like this so they...

The problem here is that the target is any willing creature instead of just self. If I was just self, then I could see it being a ritual. But with the duration of 8 hours, you could buff the entire party just before going into a heist or something of that nature.

To me a Ranger = Fighter + Rogue. It is a blend of the two classes. They way it is implemented it is a Fighter + Druid with a splash of rogue. Paladin = Fighter + Cleric Ranger = Fighter + Rogue To me it is an archetype of a fighter that doesn't need to be a separate core class.

While all true, completely irrelevant to the question about applying to ones self. Are you for example, implying a caster could use True Poly on themselves to gain a permanent change? That seems sketchy at best to me.

So after some consideration, I think the best way to handle this is to treat Druids as non-proficient in metal-based armors. It bypasses all of the other considerations and it matches the simplicity of the 5e design.

My question is what do you get out of this that Shapechange doesn't provide? The creature changes are essentially the same. And if it is ruled that you cannot concentrate while an object, it just seems Shapechange does all of this (for yourself anyway). Also, because Shapechange does exist...

This is kind of the problem with all at-will cantrips that have a valuable use outside of combat. If it becomes too much of a problem, have something like the cantrip can be used 3+Con Mod before having to start rolling for Exhaustion. (DC 10, just like the chase rules). This will limit...

Yes the whole world revolves around you, some anonymous person on a forum. Get over yourself. I attacked your silly argument not you in particular. It was you that went ad hominem. Try a little perspective. Also you are using troll incorrectly as well. Just because someone disagrees with...

Well you would be wrong -- again. This is my primary account and you can see that I post in all different topics. It is more likely to be a primary account due to its age. Just wow, you really need to learn to apply real logic instead of the pseudo logic you have been displaying.

You need to look up the definition of strawman -- it is not what you think it is. What does my posting history and sock puppet have to do with each other -- clearly you have little understanding of logic and that people might have a life outside of this forum. On the other hand, your posting...

I have been playing since 1979 and I have never seen a case where a player wanted to use metal armor as a druid or was ever in a situation where they were required to. This discussion is the ultimate corner case -- it probably has come up once at one table in all of the years of people playing...

Actually in AD&D the character would have received an alignment warning from the DM if the paladin was straying from LG. It was more than simple adjudication but less than telling the player they could not continue.

You may not like false equivalencies but you love your strawmen.

So what you are saying is that your house rules are more important than the actual rules. Got it. But again, even the UA ranger only specifies what advantages they have when tracking. It doesn't nerf the abilities of other characters. Finally, the ranger is going to be revised yet again, so I...

The problem with this premise is that it is divorced from the setting. Without playing the druid into a setting, it just becomes a player choice. However, this sentence means something different in Dark Sun vs Forgotten Realms vs homebrew, etc. So this is a total tempest in a teapot.

Except that the ranger class in 5e isn't any better or worse at this than anyone else. The Natural Explorer class ability is what makes them better in their favored terrain. The Favored Enemy class ability makes them better at this against their favored enemy. Otherwise, other classes can be...

FTFY. :)

This is objectively wrong. This whole CN is more neutral than N. By definition, chaotic individuals actively oppose laws -- especially those laws they see are victimless. So laws against say prostitution, drug use, mandatory wearing of seatbelts, etc. they opposed because they oppress...

I have to agree with Morrus here. There is a lot white room discussion about CN, but from my observations, the players that pick it tend to be the most disruptive. They take it as a license to be douchebags. These are the players that steal from the party, get other party members killed, etc...

I would humbly suggest that if you need PCs to roll a dice to notice traps, you have too many "gotcha" types of traps and you aren't making traps into encounters. To me the best traps are the ones that PCs notice right away -- the trick is how to overcome the trap. If the trap is just save or...