Bad decisions from NPCs
Grum
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So Bloodscalp decided that it would be a good idea to ask a Cavalier to do a covert mission to take down Maevar and his rogue guild. My cavalier went in, and saw that Maevar had imprisoned and tortured and innocent man for a decade, and then asked the paladin to take part in a theft. So...the paladin threw up protection from evil, walked over, and put a sword through Maevar's gut. He didn't even wait to get evidence of the man's corruption.
What was Bloodscalp thinking when he asked a paladin to do this? How did he think that this would end? That a paladin would spend time pretending to be at thief, earning their trust, and finding evidence? It's like using a flame thrower to light a cigar. Yeah, it produces fire, but you probably don't want to get it to close to his face.
Luckily for him, said cavalier is smart and wise enough to know that killing Bloodscalp for his crimes would be counter productive. Better to, as Bloodscalp admitted, let the other guilds think that he is out for them. This would disrupt the cohesiveness of the Shadow Thieves as a whole much more effectively than killing two men would ever be.
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Anyone else have examples of where NPCs made a very foolish decision?
What was Bloodscalp thinking when he asked a paladin to do this? How did he think that this would end? That a paladin would spend time pretending to be at thief, earning their trust, and finding evidence? It's like using a flame thrower to light a cigar. Yeah, it produces fire, but you probably don't want to get it to close to his face.
Luckily for him, said cavalier is smart and wise enough to know that killing Bloodscalp for his crimes would be counter productive. Better to, as Bloodscalp admitted, let the other guilds think that he is out for them. This would disrupt the cohesiveness of the Shadow Thieves as a whole much more effectively than killing two men would ever be.
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Anyone else have examples of where NPCs made a very foolish decision?
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This.
Whenever that happens it is face palm inducing.
He took a Meteor Swarm to the face.
In fact, pretty much every character who joins Charname, knowing that Charname is a wanted Bhaalspawn in whose footsteps chaos is fated to be sown.
Except Haer'Dalis. As a doomguard he would be crazy not too!
He just wanted to see what would happen. He always intended to reload and play the encounter the right way after he got his team killed for giggles.
Expose the Charname and party, instant readoption as Pharae's favourite. In fact forget Pharae, instant promotion to highest possible male available position.
I have never understood how he blames Pharae for being tortured to the point where she has "nothing left but her ambition".
It's the toturers surely who deserve his anger?
Isn't Soulafein a worshipper of the only good goddess in the drow pantheon?
Did he really think he would save himself?
Smart move:
"Hand over your wa-"
"Bye-now!" (invisibility)
Far worse than doing that is her bad grammar.
"It is something I will have to ponder on"
Why is the "on" there at the end of the sentence?
Apart from being one of those incidences where you as Charname can look around at the ruins and the dead bodies and think,
"well duh".
Just wrong and jarring, has to be the most annoying sentence in the game. And right at the end so it stays with you.
(And that use of the word "Nazi" is going to be especially delicious given what I'm about to say in this post.)
The English "ending a sentence with a preposition" is the English equivalent of the German "separable prefix verb".
Examples:
"aufstehen" - "to stand up"
"ausgehen" - "to go out"
"einschlafen" - "to fall asleep", literally "to sleep in"
"mitbringen" - "to bring with"
"mitcommen" - "to come with"
"umsehen" - "to look around", literally "to see around"
"wegehen" - "to go away".
There are thousands of such examples in German language. If you know any German at all, you know that the separable prefix preposition must come at the end of the sentence or independent clause.
Now, surely you know that English is a Germanic language.
Putting prepositions at the ends of sentences is as natural as breathing to any speaker of any Germanic language.
Now, either Churchill was woefully ignorant of the history of English language, or he was trying to distance English from German as a Germanic language. It could have been the first, or the second. Before WWII and Churchill, there was absolutely no objection to "putting prepositions at the end of sentences" in English language, that I know of.
So there. @Shandyr , as a bilingual speaker of both German (his native language) and English (in which he is fluent) might have some insight into this.
Sorry for the extreme off-topic post, but linguistics and human languages is a passion of mine, even though my native language is English and I am not fluent in any other. Perhaps a kind moderator could separate ("separate off", which word "off" wouldn't be here in this position in this sentence in any Germanic language other than English) my and @UnderstandMouseMagic 's posts here into a separate topic in Off-Topic, (perhaps titled "Use of Prepositions at Ends of Sentences in English") OFF?
Yes, I wanted the preposition OFF at the end of that sentence as originally I intended it, before I realized in mid-typing that that last sentence was a perfect case-in-point of an entirely CORRECT useage of a preposition at the end of a sentence in all Germanic languages, including English.
"to offseparate" - a perfectly legitimate English "separable prefix verb".
I'm going to have to go with the guy that originally made it a rule that the newest person in the bandit camp should watch the all important tent that has the camps prisoner and important documents.
Just seems like an assignment that someone more trustworthy should be put on.
It's also probably the job that no one wants, so they just forced the new guy to do it.
Or the guy who has to clean out the cave after the gnolls have been confined there.
You mean like this guy?
There's actually a pretty reasonable thing he could've done. Once he had heard from one spy or another that the party was going to come for him in order to take his key, he and his partner Arledrian would go to the first floor of the Shadow Thief building, where they would have safety in numbers. There, the two of them would snipe the party from the elevated platform the moment the party entered. Of course, this won't prevent him from being slaughtered by the mighty bhaalspawn in the end, but it makes a lot more sense than what he does in the game.