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<blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 8957623" data-attributes="member: 6801228"><p>Not sure which angle you meant the question from, but this does tickle an annoyance of mine. Before I rant though, I do like the idea of just restricting the druid to Light Armor and calling it a day. That works perfectly fine. </p><p></p><p>I don't like the "no-metal" rule because it was incoherent (metal tools = fine, metal armor =/= fine), not a true balancing factor (you were encouraged to make non-metal armors that were just as good), not supported (there were no canonical non-magical armors in the rules) and deeply, deeply misunderstands (to my senses) what "nature" means. </p><p></p><p>This is actually a deep problem with the Druid and Ranger in general, in that "Nature" often means "Forest" to the designers and the community. But Nature is so much more than mere forests. Mountains, Underdark caves, deserts, the ocean floor, all of it. And that constantly bugs me with how trivially easy it would be to justify metal armors, but I'm locked into a forest mindset which supposedly prevents it.</p><p></p><p>And it isn't just this one thing (I remember ranting about stupid Ettercap lore that made spiders not nature) but it does irritate me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Chaosmancer, post: 8957623, member: 6801228"] Not sure which angle you meant the question from, but this does tickle an annoyance of mine. Before I rant though, I do like the idea of just restricting the druid to Light Armor and calling it a day. That works perfectly fine. I don't like the "no-metal" rule because it was incoherent (metal tools = fine, metal armor =/= fine), not a true balancing factor (you were encouraged to make non-metal armors that were just as good), not supported (there were no canonical non-magical armors in the rules) and deeply, deeply misunderstands (to my senses) what "nature" means. This is actually a deep problem with the Druid and Ranger in general, in that "Nature" often means "Forest" to the designers and the community. But Nature is so much more than mere forests. Mountains, Underdark caves, deserts, the ocean floor, all of it. And that constantly bugs me with how trivially easy it would be to justify metal armors, but I'm locked into a forest mindset which supposedly prevents it. And it isn't just this one thing (I remember ranting about stupid Ettercap lore that made spiders not nature) but it does irritate me. [/QUOTE]
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