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<blockquote data-quote="Ohmyn" data-source="post: 7624588" data-attributes="member: 6999115">To be a bit more accurate, it's not just &quot;apparently&quot; about their beliefs, but RAW it's 100% about their beliefs. That is clarified in the Sage Advice. It is inaccurate to interpret it any other way because the developer confirmed it so.While true, I would like to add a note for all the naysayers that studded leather is 100% confirmed by the Sage Advice to qualify as not metal armor for the purpose of this belief. This does help support the idea that RAW, it's not armor containing metal, but armor made of metal. Even leather armor that is found would be likely to have metal buckles, as would wooden shields.This is true. It has been explicitly stated in the Sage Advice that nothing in the game system stops a Druid from wearing metal armor so long as they do not bypass their proficiency.Yes, this is silly. Apparently all shields weigh the same amount and provide the same protection no matter what they're made of. Druids are apparently the only mechanical reason wooden shields exist anymore.Well if you factor in the clarification of the game developer and we don't just guess the correct interpretation based on what the PHB says, as per RAW you could simply put on some metal armor. Nothing prohibits you from doing so, except of course if a DM decides otherwise, but that's true of everything.That's fair, but I would like to point out that it's a house rule to patch up what is already a house rule, since based on the developer's clarification there's nothing that requires fixing.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ohmyn, post: 7624588, member: 6999115"] To be a bit more accurate, it's not just "apparently" about their beliefs, but RAW it's 100% about their beliefs. That is clarified in the Sage Advice. It is inaccurate to interpret it any other way because the developer confirmed it so. While true, I would like to add a note for all the naysayers that studded leather is 100% confirmed by the Sage Advice to qualify as not metal armor for the purpose of this belief. This does help support the idea that RAW, it's not armor [I]containing[/I] metal, but armor [I]made[/I] of metal. Even leather armor that is found would be likely to have metal buckles, as would wooden shields. This is true. It has been explicitly stated in the Sage Advice that nothing in the game system stops a Druid from wearing metal armor so long as they do not bypass their proficiency. Yes, this is silly. Apparently all shields weigh the same amount and provide the same protection no matter what they're made of. Druids are apparently the only mechanical reason wooden shields exist anymore. Well if you factor in the clarification of the game developer and we don't just guess the correct interpretation based on what the PHB says, as per RAW you could simply put on some metal armor. Nothing prohibits you from doing so, except of course if a DM decides otherwise, but that's true of everything. That's fair, but I would like to point out that it's a house rule to patch up what is already a house rule, since based on the developer's clarification there's nothing that requires fixing. [/QUOTE]

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