Skip to content

Can the protagonist suffer morale failure?

SilverstarSilverstar Member Posts: 2,207
in General Discussion (Spoiler Warning!)
I've never seen it happen. Horror and confusion and all that from spells, sure, but I've never seen Khalid-mode kick in due to damage or party member death. I assume it's possible since the Cavalier kit spesifically states an immunity to it but... has anyone ever seen it happen? Does a particular stat need to be low for the chance to ramp up or something?

Comments

  • ReadingRamboReadingRambo Member Posts: 598
    edited December 2013
    I don't believe so, in ee keeper the protagonist has very different morale and morale break numbers than everyone else, but then I have no idea what those numbers mean
  • TressetTresset Member, Moderator Posts: 8,268
    Silverstar said:

    but I've never seen Khalid-mode kick in due to damage or party member death.

    So it is true! Khalid is derogatory!
  • GemHoundGemHound Member Posts: 801
    edited December 2013
    DEFINITELY. After some levels though the CHARNAME loses that morale failure.
  • bbearbbear Member Posts: 1,180
    usually when 2 members die, every npc would start running. This happened to a Sendai clone the other day. She had a yellow circle after I dealt some damages to her.
  • TwaniTwani Member Posts: 640
    I got morale failure on my BG1 protagonist the other day. I had forgotten how to kill that slime in Durlag's Tower (hadn't hit the stone heads yet with their clue- I came from the wyvern side). Getting frustrated with the amount of them hanging around (I had been sure it was blunt weapons only that killed them, which... no), I gave up and tried to CTRL-Y them.

    Needless to say, that didn't work well. Slime army!

    After Isra, Gavin, and Garrick got slimed in seconds, my protagonist, Immy, and Xan immediately suffered morale failure and started running around like crazy people. Needless to say, that was a definite reload.

    That was Tutu, not BGEE, but I imagine it could still happen in BGEE. The protagonist soundsets do have a sound for morale failure, after all.

    The protagonist had low INT, but I'm not sure that would effect anything.
  • SilverstarSilverstar Member Posts: 2,207
    Righty. Thanks for the replies. Apparently it's just kind of rare then.
    Tresset said:

    Silverstar said:

    but I've never seen Khalid-mode kick in due to damage or party member death.

    So it is true! Khalid is derogatory!
    Heh. I've got nothing in particular against Khalid, he simply is the companion I've seen suffer morale failure the most.
  • lunarlunar Member Posts: 3,460
    I've never seen a pc morale-failure. I think it is a npc spesific thing. Likewise, multiplayer created additional pcs never suffer a morale failure in my games as well.
  • GemHoundGemHound Member Posts: 801
    edited December 2013
    @lunar Then either you have had lucky rolls in horrid situations, or you have not run into truly horrid situation yet. For example:
    20 Kobold Commandos, an Ogre Mage, a Human Mage, 4 Ogrillons and some other nasties in the Firewine Ruins.
    Over 100 Phoenix Guards
    Sleep in Larswood, get woken up by bandits, have another party of bandits roam onto your screen and end up fighting over 30 bandits without anything to hide your characters or speed your characters up at level 3.
    Durlags Tower.


    Morale Failure is rare in BG1, extremely rare once you reach SoA, and is impossible in ToB.
Sign In or Register to comment.

2024 Overhaul Games, a division of Beamdog. © 2024 Hasbro, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Baldur's Gate, Dungeons & Dragons, D&D, Forgotten Realms, Baldur's Gate, Wizards of the Coast and their logos are trademarks of Wizards of the Coast LLC in the U.S.A. and other countries, and are used with permission. Hasbro and its logo are trademarks of Hasbro, Inc. and are used with permission. © 1998 BioWare Corp. All Rights Reserved. BioWare, the BioWare Infinity Engine and the BioWare logo are trademarks of Bioware Corp. Black Isle Studios and the Black Isle Studios logo are trademarks of Interplay Entertainment Corp. Atari and the Atari logo are trademarks owned by Atari Interactive, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.