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I think it's a great analogy. 😊

I like this approach for role-playing an aversion to metal armor. The druid I'm playing right now is wearing metal scale mail but I expect for him to be called out on it the first time he runs into another group of druids. Then he'll probably feel kind of shamed into finding an alternative...

... but you did... My point is that a wizard can use mage armor and a shield with +2 dex and have a better AC than a druid with the same stats. Then they can use a slot and a reaction to spike AC to 22. Or they could be a bladesinger and have a 19 AC anytime they want to venture into melee...

If you want to compare with wizard then druid should get a non-concentration armor buff and shield spell...

Totally, unless you don't want to be a bear or a dinosaur. 😊

My grandparents tried hard to convince my dad that this was the case when he was growing up. By the time I came around, the tradition was to have a nice piece of broiled cod with our Christmas Eve dinner instead. 😁 Maybe there's an analogy there? I don't know... For a druid who wants high...

... but if eating lutefisk improved your likelihood of survival from one day to the next, would you hold your nose and choke it down?

I think it's pretty tough for role-playing purposes to just forbid it without adding any homebrew mechanical effect, or at least coming up with a reason in the story that it should be taboo.

That's fine for moon druids, or casters that want to put up a concentration spell and retreat to safety, but a druid with scale mail or half plate can make a pretty good melee tank. I think that option should be available. I like the idea of alternative materials.

How dare you stereotype dwarves that way! You should be ashamed!

In fact the QLP, in some halfling individuals, can manifest its influence in ways other than a reduced risk of catastrophically failing at a task. Some of those individuals are able to channel the properties of the QLP to help prevent other members of their party from failing. (Bountiful Luck)...

... I'm not sure if anyone has pointed out yet that a large fraction of character builds on D&D beyond are likely optimizer builds that often begin with variant human. I wonder what will happen to the number of humans appearing there now that custom lineage is available. (but granted, behind the...

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You've gone off the rails. This is just beyond stupid now.

No. I said the player can play their character however they want. I would try to have my NPCs react to the PC in a way that I thought was appropriate. When I said that the NPCs would think it was strange if they met a hippy dippy dragonborn character that was a statement of how the player is...

I also understand what you're saying. I do think there are ways to tell the story that can make it fit. I really don't have a problem with a little deus ex machina now and then. Especially in a fantasy setting where there are gods that involve themselves in the story. Besides, Aunt Hattie...

I thought my meaning was pretty clear. I did not say anything about how Dragonborn are supposed to be played. This is absurd. Of course halflings tell their children about things that happen outside their village. What makes you think they don't? The fact that there is a dragonborn village...

I seriously don't have enough time in my life for more than one thread here!

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