Hilarious Kivan-Khalid banter
Astafas
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I can't believe I've never seen this banter before:
Kivan to Khalid: "Your courage shames the others."
Khalid to Kivan: "Th-thank you."
I mean, come on! :-D In close competition with Garrick, Khalid has to be the most cowardly NPC in the game. And Garrick is at least not a fighter by profession...
Kivan to Khalid: "Your courage shames the others."
Khalid to Kivan: "Th-thank you."
I mean, come on! :-D In close competition with Garrick, Khalid has to be the most cowardly NPC in the game. And Garrick is at least not a fighter by profession...
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But it's probably the sarcasm thing.
Khalid and Garrick are not fated heroes. They are no extra ordinary. They are keenly aware that they could very well die. How many hobgoblins, gnolls and bandits do they see die?
And yet they still get out there and fight. In Khalid's case, he holds a shield and tanks creatures which could very easily kill him. Ogres, ghasts, helmed horrors, wyrvens, giant spiders...
Every day they face their fears to do what is right. It even leads to Khalid's death.
That takes much more courage than what others show. If you have a god/daemon patron, are pure 18s physically or whatnot, then much less courage is needed.
Imoen is a thief/mage. Garrick is ranged support. They aren't front liners.
Charname is fairly obviously a fated hero. He has special bhaal powers!
Khalid is an average man who tanks for the party. There, giant, tunneling, carnivorous, acid spitting insects are trying to eat the party. Khalid is a militia-trained guy with a shield who has just overcome his very justifiable fears.
He earned that praise.
There was one where Safana asked Edwin to massage her feet, and Edwin replied something like "I'm not your servant."
You get him very early on in the game and you'll get a great F/D (Jaheira) at the same time if you want. His biggest competition is Kagain, but then again Kagain makes every other fighter in the game look bad.
All you need to do is to put either Jaheira or another high charisma character in the lead, and Khalid's morale will stop breaking so much.
Also, he makes a good archer who can switch to competent melee fighting to defend the back line if the front line breaks. That's how I usually use him.
Khalid takes a little TLC, but when you treat him right, he's a solid party member and a very good fighter. Plus, he comes with Jaheira. Now that's a power couple.
Oddly enough, Kagain is tied with both of them for being the most "cowardly" (having the worst morale breaking point).
Excellent point.
When I use Khalid with a high charisma charname, his morale break almost never comes into play.
How do you get uploaded screenshots to show up so that when you click on them, they reopen in a new expanded window? When I upload a pic, it downloads when I click on it.
If that is what you mean?
[Edited] : Reading it again i'm probably wrong and it's something else
For example, when I click on the pic that the OP posted, an enlarged version opens up (which is what I want).
But when I click on one of the pics that I post, it downloads a copy to my computer instead of opening an enlarged version.
I'm wondering if there's something that I'm doing differently from others who post pics.
As for what @Astafas did, I think he used the "Attach a file" option that's just below the comment writing field.
(other than "better part of valour, better part of valour" xD)
All of the NPCs are subject to fleeing if they get down to a few HP, hanging by a thread.
Honestly, I haven't really found the rate of morale failure for Khalid noticeably higher than any other NPC. He always performs fine in my games. He might get a bit bloodied up now and then, but he's almost never really in any serious danger in my games.
After a few levels, you shouldn't get morale failure unless you're in a TPK scenario due to terrible planning. Khalid is very tanky though, and you usually get him very low level, so he's the most likely to have a failure, mostly for beginners.