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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 7625300" data-attributes="member: 23751">You're the one failing to understand.  Here's your definition again."Won't wear metal armor" is not a regulation or a principle governing conduct.  Nobody is coercing them through such a regulation or principle.  It's nothing but a personal choice made by druids, and that means that 1) it's not a rule, and 2) PCs can opt to wear the armor.If it's not physically impossible, then my druid can break the "rule" and wear metal armor.  The DM has no right to stop me if it's not a physical impossibility.Ding! Ding! Ding!  Yes!  There was a penalty for breaking the rule, but the cleric did have the choice to break it.  The same goes for druids and metal armor and thieves and two-handed swords.  So long as they accepted the penalties(not being able to use magical abilities and non-proficient penalties), they could engage in aberrant behavior.  This is backed up by the experience section which explicitly says via the penalties that classes can engage in aberrant class behaviors.</blockquote>