[SixOfSpades]

I mean the archetypal Druid, before Wizards of the Coast or TSR or even Tolkien came along, I mean the guys who wore elk skulls and talked to trees.

The "edged tool / living thing" prohibition is mentioned in C.S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, among other sources, but I'm not going to scan the whole book for the exact words just now. I just know that a Druid using bladed and piercing weapons just seems really wrong to me....but I would be willing to alter the rules a bit, so that Druids would simply refuse to touch anything made of iron, which is another very old restriction--although, technically, it was the fairy folk who abhorred iron. But I'd be perfectly OK with Druids using spears that happened to have heads made of stone rather than steel.