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<blockquote data-quote="coolAlias" data-source="post: 7625752" data-attributes="member: 6998948">Agreed - in older editions, that's how it was, but even then, at least in my experience, they were ignored far more frequently than non-lore-based rules. How many non-human Paladins were roaming around in 2e? I saw many. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :P"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" />Each edition has become more and more lenient with regards to lore-based rules, and 5e has for the most part done away with all of that (rightly, imo).Obviously there are a few exceptions, but without knowing the history of rules in D&amp;D, if you were reading the rules for the first time, taking everything as written in its natural English meaning, would you honestly come to the conclusion that there would never be a Druid character rocking some metal armor?It's a lore-based rule in an edition that basically got rid of every lore-based rule, and so sticks out as being out of place.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="coolAlias, post: 7625752, member: 6998948"] Agreed - in older editions, that's how it was, but even then, at least in my experience, they were ignored far more frequently than non-lore-based rules. How many non-human Paladins were roaming around in 2e? I saw many. :P Each edition has become more and more lenient with regards to lore-based rules, and 5e has for the most part done away with all of that (rightly, imo). Obviously there are a few exceptions, but without knowing the history of rules in D&D, if you were reading the rules for the first time, taking everything as written in its natural English meaning, would you honestly come to the conclusion that there would never be a Druid character rocking some metal armor? It's a lore-based rule in an edition that basically got rid of every lore-based rule, and so sticks out as being out of place. [/QUOTE]

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