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<blockquote data-quote="dco" data-source="post: 6385524">Hi,your DM could let you have an armor of wood, for example a breastplate or scalemail, in MERP or RM I don't remember well there was for example some wood as hard as iron. It's fantasy, another option is a magic item (for example in War of the Burning sky there is a magic sword made of wood) or something more cool like turtle caparace.<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&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Personally I find absurd that a druid can't wear a metal armor but can have tons of metal weapons, as a master I would be a bit flexible and facilitate things to a druid that wants something more than hide armor.About barkskin, the description talks about the skin and it also says &quot;regardless of what kind of armor it is wearing&quot;, my interpretation is that it substitutes your armor + dex bonus if they are below 16, if it was a substitution to all your AC the last phrase about armor is redundant.For example if you wear hide:Hide + 5 dex bonus --&gt; AC 17 --&gt; 17 with barkskinHide + 2 dex bonus --&gt; AC 14 --&gt; with barkskin AC16.Hide + 2 dex bonus + shield --&gt; AC 14+2 --&gt; with barkskin AC18It makes the most sense, you also avoid the strange things that happen with cover if you interpret the other way.Also it is well balanced, compare the other option to mage armor:Mage armor: 1st level, AC=13+dex (15+dex with shield), 8h, no concentrationBarkskin: 2nd level, if you have less than 16 your AC becomes 16, requires concentration.In this case with a shield and hide armor (AC=14+dex) this spells gives you at max 2AC bonus if you don't have dex bonuses or while you don't get cover. Practically only interesting if for some strange reason you don't want to make use of your armor proficiencies or if you change form.It's a matter of how do you interpret it, in my opinion it flows better considering the spell as a substitute for your armor+dex bonus to AC.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="dco, post: 6385524"] Hi, your DM could let you have an armor of wood, for example a breastplate or scalemail, in MERP or RM I don't remember well there was for example some wood as hard as iron. It's fantasy, another option is a magic item (for example in War of the Burning sky there is a magic sword made of wood) or something more cool like turtle caparace.;) Personally I find absurd that a druid can't wear a metal armor but can have tons of metal weapons, as a master I would be a bit flexible and facilitate things to a druid that wants something more than hide armor. About barkskin, the description talks about the skin and it also says "regardless of what kind of armor it is wearing", my interpretation is that it substitutes your armor + dex bonus if they are below 16, if it was a substitution to all your AC the last phrase about armor is redundant. For example if you wear hide: Hide + 5 dex bonus --> AC 17 --> 17 with barkskin Hide + 2 dex bonus --> AC 14 --> with barkskin AC16. Hide + 2 dex bonus + shield --> AC 14+2 --> with barkskin AC18 It makes the most sense, you also avoid the strange things that happen with cover if you interpret the other way. Also it is well balanced, compare the other option to mage armor: Mage armor: 1st level, AC=13+dex (15+dex with shield), 8h, no concentration Barkskin: 2nd level, if you have less than 16 your AC becomes 16, requires concentration. In this case with a shield and hide armor (AC=14+dex) this spells gives you at max 2AC bonus if you don't have dex bonuses or while you don't get cover. Practically only interesting if for some strange reason you don't want to make use of your armor proficiencies or if you change form. It's a matter of how do you interpret it, in my opinion it flows better considering the spell as a substitute for your armor+dex bonus to AC. [/QUOTE]

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