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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ConcreteBuddha" data-source="post: 358140" data-attributes="member: 3139">Three things: 1) My original post was a joke. Sorry if you didn't find it funny. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> 2) I think we are using the word "plausible" in different ways.Example: I find it plausable that a druid could use a scimitar but not a greatclub in the same way that I find it plausable that Catholics eat fish on Fridays or that they revere a statue of a guy on a stick. It may not be very rational, but that is what dogma is all about, isn't it? Your earlier attempt at an explanation was a silly attempt to justify the oath, and therefore make the rules seem stupid. That doesn't work in my book, because you could just as easily say that Christians are silly for believing the Son of God was some dumb schmuck who randomly happened to get stuck to a tree, and therefore debunk Christian dogma as being unplausable.Just to make things clear: I am interpreting your use of the word "plausable" to be equivalent to the word "rational", and this is not always the case. Oftentimes irrational things are just as equally plausable. (And those irrational, yet plausable, beliefs are oftentimes difficult to explain to those outside of the culture, just as you are outside the culture of DnD druids. Unless you were raised on magic berries and regularly happen to summon wild badgers to do your bidding...) <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=";)" /> 3) If you have a problem with the specific weapons selections for the druid in DnD, that does not mean that it is a problem for everyone who plays DnD. Trying to convince us that the druid flavor is lame is like trying to convince us that chocolate ice cream is far superior to vanilla. Hence rule zero for your game. I happen to like the silly flavor that the druid has. Of course, even I tweak it a bit to fit the dogma in my world. But since the PHB is not a world, but a rulebook, the authors had to make the druid (and all of the classes and races) as generic as possible without being bland and lifeless.Every setting has the option of rule zeroing this issue, and most of them already do. This is not a weakness in the system, but a strength. So rule zero to your heart's content.  Unorganized debate is the best way to keep your brain alive. Of course, we could instead watch TV and let somebody else do our thinking for us. It's far safer that way, with less tar and pitchforks and all that...  <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=";)" /></blockquote>

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