Kick someone out for keldorn?

itti · Post by **itti** » Tue Mar 30, 2010 3:12 pm

Hi,

I'm currently playing with this party:

- pc - fighter
- minsc
- jaheira
- aerie
- anomen
- yoshimo

as I'm about to go into the sewers, my question is whether it would make sense to take keldorn into the party and who should be kicked out therefore. any suggestions?

Stworca · Post by **Stworca** » Tue Mar 30, 2010 3:37 pm

You don't realy need Keldorn as your party has plenty of Dispel Magic powers, and you have quite a few melee characters, which makes Keldorn + Carsomyr much less useful.

Keep it as it is, and remember to pick up Imoen once.. a certain spot opens

RP wise you COULD kick Yoshimo for some time, to watch how Keldorn reacts to Anomen trying to get into his beloved order, and what happens after he mades it / fails. There is one problem however, you will have no thief.

BUT the game can be easily finished without any thieves.

dragon wench · Post by **dragon wench** » Tue Mar 30, 2010 3:45 pm

If you're just looking for a change of pace, I'd suggest swapping out Minsc for Keldorn.
You could also remove either Jaheira or Anomen, but they are both healers... not to mention that Jaheira has that lovely spell "insect Swarm."
Minsc, on the other hand, is simply a tank and he doesn't really offer any more than that.
Don't get me wrong, Minsc is actually one of my favourite NPCs, but if you're looking to replace somebody with Keldorn, I think Minsc is the obvious choice.

Edar Macilrille · Post by **Edar Macilrille** » Tue Mar 30, 2010 3:49 pm

Kick Jaheira! My reasons are manyfold and can be found by looking in the posts from the past couple of months visible below this one, so I will not repeat them.

Just kick Jaheira so hard she bounces.

itti · Post by **itti** » Wed Mar 31, 2010 3:31 pm

Thanks for your answers. I think I will stick with my party as it is then, like Stworca suggested.

I can understand the various reasons for kicking out Jaheira, but I left her and her whiny husband behind in Beregost at BG1 times. So i kinda fell like owing her something. Minsk on the other hand could be easily swapped out but I too like his character very much. I fear I will have to miss out on some of the keldorn <-> anomen fun.

jouke1988 · Post by **jouke1988** » Thu Apr 01, 2010 1:13 am

@itti

You wil miss a lot but you will play it trough multiple times like the most of us, you will chance your party a lot of times so you will end up with Anomen and Keldorn some time

Edar Macilrille · Post by **Edar Macilrille** » Thu Apr 01, 2010 4:58 am

I choose friends I like RL and assume that my PC does as well. You want people you can trust because of mutual love-friendship around you when the going gets tough. So I do not take bitchy + bossy Jaheira and whining + tyrannised Khalid, for I dislike them and they are not my friends. Thus I see her presence in Chateu Irenicus as a mistake- she simply is not there for me. My surviving friends are.

willsanders84 · Post by **willsanders84** » Thu Apr 01, 2010 11:31 am

If I took my friends wilth me I'd take:

Bernard from the Copper Coronet
Ribald
Roger the Fence
Neeber
Biff the understudy

...I''d get owned.

However, I have a sister, and if SHE got taken from me, I'd want:

Keldorn
Aerie
Yoshimo
And Jaheira

To get her back. Multi-talented, reliable characters that I know will remain loyal and do the job. Is BG2 a romp through Faerun, or a very, very serious task? It's a difficult question, and depends on how you want to play the game.

I don't currently have Keldorn with me, I've a four man party, but he'd definately be my fifth. In real life, if the s**t hit the fan, Firecam would be my man.

Edar Macilrille · Post by **Edar Macilrille** » Thu Apr 01, 2010 4:37 pm

He would be mine as well. But you got to coinsider that amongst my friends I have some of the best swordfighters in Europe, academics, vets, doctors, nurses and serving or ex-servicemen in the Danish and English armed forces. In fact I have some pretty scary people amongst my friends- if they chose to be scary, but generally they are very nice.

So, I would bring some of them.

Actually, counting I could collect a platoon of really- really- really scary people, some of whom have killed in action, most really good sword-/axe-/spear-fighters, most veterans of active duty and combat (I happen to know an ex-major in SAS and later 2me REP and African wildlife Ranger as the most extreme one, but also a high-up in the Swedish anti-terror police and a vet of Congo mercenary service who has nightmares of torture... and I am currently a historian; how absurd is that? LOL), a vet and two nurses, and two pilots. I would leave the doctor at home, he is a really nice chap who would not do much good in combat whereas the vet would, then patch us up afterwards (he does so when we get injured swordfighting already, weirdest was when he wast stitching his own head up in a mirror so as to avoid hamfisted ER-service personel tired from long hours on duty...).

Oh well... I guess I have an unusual collection of friends. I better emphasise that I also have pretty normal people, but that Viking re-enactment fighting tends to attract ex- and active servicemen. One of the first Danes to fall in Afghanistan was Thorbjørn Reese a comrade and companion in arms from Run, if not actually a close friend.