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<blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 7750748" data-attributes="member: 3400">That depends on exactly how abstractly you want to look at it. In 3e, had that orc chief rolled a crit threat and failed to hit with the confirmation, you could argue the armor saved Frodo's life in a way that works with the depiction in the book. It was a hit, maybe the orc rolled high damage, but didn't crit which would probably have killed the hobbit. But even in 1e, considering the attack roll didn't necessarily represent a single thrust of a spear but a minute's worth of combat, that round of attacks directed at Frodo could have included multiple attacks (if the orc was a high enough level) - at least one of which hit and at least one of which missed - and leave Frodo in a similar condition, wounded but saved by his armor.The other realization is that mithril armor of LotR quality could be credibly represented as magical, particularly given the subtlety of some magic in LotR.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="billd91, post: 7750748, member: 3400"] That depends on exactly how abstractly you want to look at it. In 3e, had that orc chief rolled a crit threat and failed to hit with the confirmation, you could argue the armor saved Frodo's life in a way that works with the depiction in the book. It was a hit, maybe the orc rolled high damage, but didn't crit which would probably have killed the hobbit. But even in 1e, considering the attack roll didn't necessarily represent a single thrust of a spear but a minute's worth of combat, that round of attacks directed at Frodo could have included multiple attacks (if the orc was a high enough level) - at least one of which hit and at least one of which missed - and leave Frodo in a similar condition, wounded but saved by his armor. The other realization is that mithril armor of LotR quality [b]could[/b] be credibly represented as magical, particularly given the subtlety of some magic in LotR. [/QUOTE]

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