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<blockquote data-quote="oreofox" data-source="post: 7625888" data-attributes="member: 6776240">I am curious why a 1e monk couldn't use flaming oil. As someone who didn't play but 1 session of 1e, it seems strange.However, I have noticed a trend in more modern gaming (maybe it was there back then, too), people seem to not be able to play characters with deeply held convictions. Things they absolutely will not do, ways they absolutely will not act, and so on. The hatred for alignment, the 420+ posts in here hating on a druid not wearing metal armor, calling people who follow the rule of no druid in metal armor &quot;dumb&quot;. The cries for non-lawful good paladins (which was granted with 5e), why does my monk have to be lawful? What if I want to multiclass with barbarian for that sweet rage? Why does my barbarian have to be chaotic?Druids won't wear armor made of metal because of their lore based convictions. &quot;But what about a nature cleric in half-plate?&quot; Ok, if you want to wear metal armor, make a nature cleric. Or is your reason for choosing druid the wild shape, and screw any &quot;stupid lore 'non-rules&quot;? Then you will have to suck it up and deal with the no metal armor. Or take it up with your DM. I know at my table, a druid would never willingly wear metal armor. It's a lore based reason, an oath a potential druid takes that is binding upon taking the 1st level of druid. Want some nature magic while wearing metal armor? Play somewhere else, as my nature deities impose the same restriction upon their clerics.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="oreofox, post: 7625888, member: 6776240"] I am curious why a 1e monk couldn't use flaming oil. As someone who didn't play but 1 session of 1e, it seems strange. However, I have noticed a trend in more modern gaming (maybe it was there back then, too), people seem to not be able to play characters with deeply held convictions. Things they absolutely will not do, ways they absolutely will not act, and so on. The hatred for alignment, the 420+ posts in here hating on a druid not wearing metal armor, calling people who follow the rule of no druid in metal armor "dumb". The cries for non-lawful good paladins (which was granted with 5e), why does my monk have to be lawful? What if I want to multiclass with barbarian for that sweet rage? Why does my barbarian have to be chaotic? Druids won't wear armor made of metal because of their lore based convictions. "But what about a nature cleric in half-plate?" Ok, if you want to wear metal armor, make a nature cleric. Or is your reason for choosing druid the wild shape, and screw any "stupid lore 'non-rules"? Then you will have to suck it up and deal with the no metal armor. Or take it up with your DM. I know at my table, a druid would never willingly wear metal armor. It's a lore based reason, an oath a potential druid takes that is binding upon taking the 1st level of druid. Want some nature magic while wearing metal armor? Play somewhere else, as my nature deities impose the same restriction upon their clerics. [/QUOTE]

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