The bandits must be stupid

Loremaster

Just killed the guys in Tazog’s tent, released Ender Sai, looted the chest for treasured and documents…then simply walked out of the camp. On the way out I had a chat with both Ardenor Crush and Taugosz Khosann.

The bandits must be stupid. Shouldn’t somebody in the camp realise there has been a fight in the main tent or notice a prisoner on the loose?

Does anybody else think the bandits should realise something is wrong?

Shin

One of the limitations of the vanilla AI. Sword Coast Stratagems has a component that modifies this.

Loremaster

I know, SCS is wonderful. But even in vanilla, I tnink at least some bandits should go investigate the tent after the fight. After all it is a tent.

Shin

I guess it's also in order to make the infiltration option where you pretend to want to join the bandits produce a different outcome. If you end up having to slaughter the entire camp anyway, it's a bit moot.

Loremaster

Yeah, that's true. It just felt a little bit odd, fighting in a tent, releasing a prisoner... un-noticed. Anyhow, it is a game, not reality.

Drugar

They're probably used to all sorts of screams and weird sounds coming from Tazok's tent. And Endar Sai is a crafty rogue who can easily sneak out.

Makes peeeerfect sense.

Hunt

To go along with this, if you let on to Tazok that you know whats going on with Mulahey (sp), he fights you, says you're tough and gives you the run of the camp. Don't remember the exact wording, but I was expecting the camp to go hostile at the very least.

Loremaster

Just ran past the hunters in cloakwood with a wolf on my tail. They just stood there. Doesn't seem they take their hunting very seriously.

FinneousPJ

I once forgot my game on for the night. In game time days, weeks, maybe months had gone by. Sarevok and all the baddies had done nothing to move their evil plans forward - they just waited for me to advance the plot. They must be stupid.

lunar

FinneousPJ said:

I once forgot my game on for the night. In game time days, weeks, maybe months had gone by. Sarevok and all the baddies had done nothing to move their evil plans forward - they just waited for me to advance the plot. They must be stupid.

You left your character unattended for months of game time? Why didn't he die of starvation/lack of sleep?

FinneousPJ

He must be stupid too :P

ChildofBhaal599

FinneousPJ said:

He must be stupid too :P

beat me to it

nano

Maybe Tazok had his tent magically soundproofed so he can do... noisy things.

I had one game where I decided to take an island vacation before following Sarevok into the maze. The game clock doesn't advance but the cutscene says it takes weeks of sailing, so I can just imagine Sarevok hiding in his temple, checking his watch. "He was right behind me... any moment now... he hasn't forgotten about me, has he? I'll give him another hour... "

melakon

I used silencers on my party's swords so I didn't think it weird.

meagloth

Duh, bandits are stupid.

SCARY_WIZARD

lunar said:

You left your character unattended for months of game time? Why didn't he die of starvation/lack of sleep?

Maybe it's a Bhaalspawn power!
Kagain: "By my gran's beard, I can't... HEURK!"
CHARNAME: "Dude, it's all in your head. I've been awake longer than you, and I don't feel anything. Oh, ye gods, get up, you wuss! You're almost as bad as Edwin -- 'Everything sounds like rushing water!'. Plebeians."

the_spyder

Loremaster said:

I know, SCS is wonderful. But even in vanilla, I tnink at least some bandits should go investigate the tent after the fight. After all it is a tent.

Yeah, but it is Tazog's tent. I am sure that the Bandits are used to all manner of 'Noises' coming out of it from time to time as Tazog has 'Fun' with guests.

Corvino

From what we hear from 90% of the bandits, they *are* stupid. "So I kicked him in the head until he was dead"? We're talking football-hooligan levels of brainpower without the literacy and numeracy skills imparted by a modern compulsory education system.