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Resistance is not immunity. Hobbits are resistant to the magical corruption of the sort the rings subjected their wearers to. Not the basic corruption of human nature. They are different things, but you seem insistent on conflating them.

We didn't double down on quantum being what we disliked. We simply separated who engaged in it as what made it acceptable or unacceptable to us. The traditional DM has to engage in it in order to create. Players do not and should not, at least in games that I like to play and run.

I don't know. Catch a fish and eat it seems pretty high up on the list.

I mean, two of the three wisest and knowledgeable beings on Middle Earth were pretty sure of it, and the third(Elrond) was almost surely in the same boat as they were. There's corruption, like politicians, murderers and petty criminals engage in. And then there is the cancerous magical...

In Lord of the Rings its a slow change. Corruption of the sort we are talking about doesn't happen immediately in Middle Earth. We aren't discussing corruption like politicians and murderers engage in.

Yes. They were much more resistant to corruption than hobbits and would never have become wraiths. Hobbits on the other hand are less resistant, but still resistant. They will slowly become wraiths, such that even 500 years is not enough time, and that's if the hobbit is initially evil, say a...

That's the wrong question. The correct question is why the ring's corrupting influence, so strong it could turn Galadriel and Gandalf, didn't turn him into a wraith in a few short years. And no, he wasn't corrupted immediately. It began the process immediately, but it took a long time and 500...

Easy. An orc has 4d6-L wisdom score unless the DM uses another method of determining stats. We know this because monsters can have class levels and to be a class in AD&D requires being created like a PC, which means all 6 stats. As for how much experience a dragon has, that only matters if...

Hot take. The players DO care. They just don't know that they care. In my experience those extra details from world-building make the game much more enjoyable for the players, even if the players aren't overtly marveling at all the world-building that I did(in the distant past when I had...

I'll go with the Lord of the Rings books where it was said over your reference that wasn't written by Tolkien, thank you. Hobbits were more resistant to the effects of the rings. Gollum had the ring for 500 years. Bilbo for a long time as well. The men were corrupted almost immediately...

Are heritage and heritage gifts racial abilities? Because a racial adaption like that is a racial ability.

Yep. 1000 meters. Kuo-toans lived on the surface, but retreated to the depths of the ocean and the underdark. They adapted to their lightless environments. Light penetrates the ocean to a depth of about 1000 meters, so we are talking about a humanoid race capable of living on the surface and...

One of the reasons, and perhaps the most important reason, is that hobbits are racially resistant to magical corruption.

I meant in general, not specifically you. A lot of people here use derogatory terms for our style of play. "Play to find out what's in the DM's notes." "Traditional play is a railroad." " And more. Seems like most of the terms folks that prefer narrative play use to describe traditional play...

I didn't think you'd have an issue with it. ;):p

That isn't the agenda, though. The agenda is a cool fight where the PCs can just mow through a bunch of monsters that still challenge them. Avoiding the slog is to make that fight against a ton of PCs 1) enjoyable, and 2) possible. Even a high level group isn't going to mow through a ton of...

The 4e minion rules literally say that they are for use when the DM wants to throw a lot of monsters at the PCs without it becoming a slog. That's a narrative contrivance. The stats are mechanics built to support that narrative goal. Not everything mechanical is gamist.

Because the game says so. It's CR 11 or CR 16 and the one with 111 is CR 8. While CR is inaccurate, it still gives the games intended approximate power levels. A group of level 11 PCs is in a big minion ogre encounter and one steps backwards into a pen with 20 house cats, upsetting them and...

That's why 3e did it better by tying it to character level and not class level.

Yep. That seems to be the point to me as well. That @Lanefan for the CRs wrong with his ogre example doesn't mean that he is getting that argument/point wrong. Calling him out that way is picking nits.