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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ohmyn" data-source="post: 7624536" data-attributes="member: 6999115">"The more powerful druidic spells, as well as their wider range of weaponry, make up for the fact that druids are unable to use any armor or shields other than leather armor and wooden shields (metallic armor spoils their magical powers)."You're omitting the important part where it specifies why they can't use it. They could still put it on, there was just preset conditions as to what would happen, which would cause it to play out like this at any reasonable table:DM: "You found a breastplate."Druid: "I put it on. What happens?"DM: "You're a Druid, and it's metal, so you lose access to all of your magic. You also lack the ability to properly use it, so you gain no armor benefits."Druid: "Okay...I take it off."The same was true of Magic Users. Never did they just say they couldn't wear any type of armor or wield any type of weapon without saying why that was the case. Magic Users didn't have the martial training required to use armor, so even if they made the choice to put it on, any reasonable DM easily knew they lacked the training to get any bonus out of it, and that it simply added to their encumbrance with no benefit. There was not some magical ward that prevented the armor from being put on by a Magic User. A Magic User could carry a shield, they simply couldn't use a shield.</blockquote>