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<blockquote data-quote="James Gasik" data-source="post: 8573302" data-attributes="member: 6877472">My personal belief as to why it's so vague- many players feel Druid armor restrictions don't make sense.&nbsp; There's nothing unnatural about metal.&nbsp; Certainly, they can use metal weapons or tools or anything else just fine.You can't even say that it's worked metal that's a problem. Nothing stopped WotC from explaining that this was the result of some agreement or pact with the powers of nature to grant them their powers- perhaps Druids can use weapons because they lack talons, claws, or fangs, but they can't use armor because no natural animal has a hide made of steel?But rather than do that, again, a halfway measure.&nbsp; We won't say why it's wrong, so that those who feel the restriction is silly (especially in light of Nature Clerics in plate armor) can just ignore it.We won't get rid of it entirely, so those who want it to be a thing won't accuse 5e of &quot;not being D&amp;D&quot; for excluding it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="James Gasik, post: 8573302, member: 6877472"] My personal belief as to why it's so vague- many players feel Druid armor restrictions don't make sense. There's nothing unnatural about metal. Certainly, they can use metal weapons or tools or anything else just fine. You can't even say that it's worked metal that's a problem. Nothing stopped WotC from explaining that this was the result of some agreement or pact with the powers of nature to grant them their powers- perhaps Druids can use weapons because they lack talons, claws, or fangs, but they can't use armor because no natural animal has a hide made of steel? But rather than do that, again, a halfway measure. We won't say why it's wrong, so that those who feel the restriction is silly (especially in light of Nature Clerics in plate armor) can just ignore it. We won't get rid of it entirely, so those who want it to be a thing won't accuse 5e of "not being D&D" for excluding it. [/QUOTE]

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