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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nebulous" data-source="post: 4575333" data-attributes="member: 31465">Yes, there's no reason why a wizard shouldn't be able to wear armor.  They might not wear it WELL, and it can hamper their spellcasting, but they should be able to wear it.Conan the Barbarian (the first Arnold movie) had the wizard at the end decked out in plate i think (or some other heavy armor).  He eschewed his magic for the safer, practical body armor for the big fight. Or maybe he just didn't have any Magic Missiles memorized that day. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />I suppose it is a level of detail too deep for D&D, but i think armor and shields and maybe even weapons should have a minimum Str and Con requirments to successfully use them.  That 10 Str wizard physically CAN'T wear chainmail more than a few minutes before he's exhausted. I think that realistically if an untrained wizard were to walk into a dungeon in chainmail, he would move slow, get encumbered quickly, and get tired faster.  All of those factor would impact his spellcasting ability, although his AC would be signifcantly higher. You don't need any artificial rules about "iron interfering with magic energy".</blockquote>