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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gizmo33" data-source="post: 3867817" data-attributes="member: 30001">Ok.  I would propose that "battle-hardened" could equally mean 1st level warrior plus intangible morale factors.  It's a question of whether or not someone who is battle-hardened is really better in a one-on-one fight than someone who isn't - or whether they simply have better morale and familiarity for how their unit operates.  These intangibles aren't as easy to deal with as "2nd level" so I suppose most people would translate it as 2nd+.  But this basically starts the escalation of power because then intangibles start to mean killing power because it's the only thing that DnD models in this area.  Or perhaps it was just deus ex machina being employed by the author.  An author's writing is not interactive and does not have to stand up to the level of scrutiny and simulation that a rule set must (under most gaming styles).  That makes translating novels into game statistics very tricky.  Sort of like when a Bond villain just sets the sea bass with lasers on their heads after Bond and then leaves the room thinking he's accomplished his strategic goal.Did you ever hear of the inverse ninja law?  (I think it's on wikipedia).  I've found there's something similar with horror monsters - the longer they are in the movie, the weaker they get.  Take "30 days of night" for example - at first the vampires seem blindingly fast and powerful, but as the movie rolls on they become slower and weaker it seems.  I think that's a basic property of all story monsters - they're going to seem less scary as they fail to kill the heroes, who in this case can't be much more than 1st level hobbits.  Again, it's probably just a situation where a story author has the luxury of being able to manipulate perception of risk in a way that a game system cannot.Must be a case of the universal mind because I have no idea what E6 is (unless it's the Spanish language version of the E! channel).   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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