Michael Moorcock’s Elric of Melnibone was pretty much a sickly all-round feeb. He could only function at all by constantly taking drugs and having Stormbringer kill people so he could feed off their life force.
MacBeth could not be killed by any man born of woman.
::smacks Der Trihs with wet trout::
The last time somebody said that to me, I strangled him with this own intestines.
Psst. I know all that already. 'Was twitting Miller for using the D&D weasel-word in a Tolkien context.
Well, kinda sorta. Except that, one way or another, no lasting harm ever occurred to him even from “indirect” magic. Like in Night Mare, where the supposedly invulnerable Bink wound up inside the gourd-world - he came out of it quite happily, and was probably in less danger “trapped” in the gourd than in the outside world, where his magic-immunity might have meant more direct measures having to be taken against him.