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Power hungry dictator! The rules say nothing about my cowboy hat wearing, Texan oil baron-druid with fracking proficiency. If you don't let me, then you are the problem "between screen and chair". Seriously though, I can't believe the rhetoric on this. If a DM does not allow metal, then he...

Just as equal as equating armor restrictions as "straight jacket" and inhibiting "player agency". In both cases, there is a "restrictive fluff-rule" with no explicit adjudication and in both cases it could very by table - and be acceptable. But hyperbole seems to the funnest way to argue here.

What happens if a Paladin of Redemption goes around cutting off the hands and feet of peasants and fashions a necklace out of them? There really are no explicit penalties or consequences. Just suggestions. Would a DM who objects to that behavior be a tyrant who is removing player agency with...

You all are wrong. The correct RAW and RAI is that druids can only wear metal armor. Furthermore, any deviation from this means you must all disband your campaigns and are on DnD probation for 18 months because you are all bad and wrong for having an opinion that differs from mine.

I don't understand why we are all so passionate about this. I don't like druids in armor. I think the rule says they don't wear it. Good for me. Others might be fine with druids in metal armor. Good for them. If I was a player at a table and the DM ruled one way of the other, I wouldn't...

Oh I'm with you and that's how I handle it. They just don't wear it. Or will take it off at first feasible opportunity if someone hazed them.one night after a night of drinking and put it on them while they were passed out.

I feel that there is enough opinions from the other side so that there definitely is some ambiguity. If a significant portion of the players read the same text and come to a different conclusion, then I assume the rule could be clarified better.

They worked it out at their table smoothly. It shouldn't be our business to ask for citations. Whether you wanna call it a house rule or not, it doesn't matter.

I think this is missing the point of the fluff. Druids disdain the use of metal armor. Just like they would probably frown upon industrialization and factories. There are no mechanical penalties for a druid to litter and pollute nature, or to upset the balance of nature too. Does that mean a...

No "big" metal armor for me. Always make sure there are obtainable Ankheg, Bulette, spider carapace, etc. equivalents. Makes it fun when the druid obtains one. I'm mostly against the image of druids in full plate. In a world with adventuring druids and stuff and the "no metal" armor...

Technological improvements to reduce production costs could play a big part in video game costs. For example, the marginal cost to a company is near zero when someone just buys and downloads a game.

Not only did we just inject more currency, we also locked down parts of the economy. Inflation, trade deficit bound to go up.

Addition is change. If you add some sort of superpower to a class (say first level wish spells for bards), that would be an actual change that could affect lore. All Bards are gods basically. The bladesinger change does not have the same effect. If anything, it made them truer to the lore.

Doesn't that logically lead to the conclusion that any change in mechanics (optional or otherwise) requires changes in lore (optional or otherwise) and "canon". I can't see such a model scaling well.

One difference between Earth religion and DnD religion, is that there is direct evidence of at least some sort of supernatural power(s) in DnD. I would certainly not be an atheist in DnD land since I actually see clerics performing miracles with glowy magic and all. At the very least I would...

I think regardless, the deities in DnD are more like extra-planar beings that can be slain, etc. Very unlike the monotheist religions of our world. They are not omniscient or omnipotent. I don't know if that's just a Thermian attempt on my part to reconcile atheism and DnD "religions".

Sorry! I was just giving a reason as to why they would make more FR content. Basically for newer players who don't know what FR is. I suppose I'm replying to no one now but didn't mean to offend if I misunderstood your post.

The vast majority of the player base is probably unaware of "previous canon" nor familiar with previous versions. To them, Forgotten Realms is new. WOTC runs a business and has been very successful with expanding their base to include a whole new generation of players. It may very well upset...

Where have gods been injected into Eberron or Dark Sun?

Sorry. I was equating "optional mechanics" to "optional lore" which would make "optional canon" - which would be contradictory.