Can mages wear armor?
This question has been endlessly debated. First of all, if he is not casting spells, any mage can wear any armor he wants to, unless the armor in question is magic and only wearable by warriors, but that’s a different story. Whether or not he gets an AC bonus from that armor is also another matter altogether. The question arises when a mage attempts to cast spells while wearing armor. For a more in-depth survey of the rules, potential reasoning behind the rules, some house rules, and some possible ramifications of those house rules, see Joel Hahn’s Mages and Armor treatise. In brief, while the core rulebooks state that wizards may not wear armor while casting spells, many players do not like this rule, both because lack of armor gets many a mage killed and because they can’t think of a logical in-game reason behind the no armor while casting rule that doesn’t also have some major negative or illogical ramifications (e.g. if it is because it is too constrictive, so is heavy winter cloth
