Originally Posted by
Tetrasodium
underline & italics mine.
And that's a fine position to take, except the fatal flaw in attempting to do so is that whatever page or pages of RAW to support it are either so well hidden that after many many pages, not one of the vocal "RAW says druids will not wear metal armor" crowd has managed to actually quote it. Not even the most charitable teacher in early grade school when children are learning to write would consider "druids will not w ear armor or use shields made of metal" to be a "story", yet we have pages and pages from people pounding the table in demand that everyone accept it as a story of such epic quality that it overrides and and all actual descriptive RAW & story fluff within all other parts of the game no matter how discordant the resulting collision is. Not only is there no "story" to support it, there is neither "story" nor RAW mechanics to push back against a druid who chooses for whatever reason to make that choice that choice.