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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hawkeyefan" data-source="post: 6854195" data-attributes="member: 6785785">It's hard to say for sure. The Ring certainly seemed to exert more influence on its bearer when it wanted. Frodo's corruption is far quicker and more severe than Bilbo's. Is that because Sauron's strength is growing? Or is it because Frodo had to face Sauron's servants directly, and was wounded by them? Or did the Ring simply sense the objective of his mission and try to exert control to avoid destruction? Probably any...or all...of those factors can be sited as the reason.Smaegol's fall was far quicker, and happened simply upon seeing the Ring. Was that because he was a worse person than Bilbo or Frodo? Maybe...we don't really know much about him, but he seemed a bit selfish. But would he have killed without the Ring? Very hard to say. I'd lean toward no, but that's pure conjecture. The Ring had been found and it immediately did what it needed to move on to where it wanted to be...and it used Smaegol to do it. So I don't know if I'd attribute Bilbo's resistance to the Ring as anything more than the Ring being happy to remain where it was for a time. I am not blaming the victim in any way. And I don't think I said anyone else was. Except perhaps in the analogy of "Tatyana = One Ring". My stance that that analogy doesn't work is because it is essentially blaming Tatyana, and that's not correct.The way I will treat the backstory in my game is that all of this happened over time. None of it was sudden. When it comes to the exact order of events, I'm not really concerned about them because I doubt my players will be writing down every detail and trying to place them in chronological order. No, they'll get the broad strokes, and that will be more than enough.I plan on going over the Amber Temple stuff again in more detail to decide how I want to handle that. Honestly the vestige bit and all that is what I find more concerning than the specific order of events in Strahd's fall. I'll have more comments about that once I give it a more thorough read.</blockquote>

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