Boo likes the forest! But does Minsc?

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On the Bioware forums, somebody told me that morale is affected by many environmental factors such as the presence of strong or weak enemies, and also by the individual characters' preference for the kind of environment they're in -- dungeon, forest, city, and so on.

None of this is explicitly part of the game rules, but since a lot of you guys have done work in the mechanics of the game, I'm wondering if there's a list floating around of the individual "morale profile" of the NPCs. Exactly how much lower than everyone else's is Khalid's base morale? Is he especially likely to suffer morale failures in dungeons? And so on.

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Well, here's what I found out by poking around with Near Infinity. There are three variables listed to do with morale: Morale, Morale Recovery, and Morale Break.

Everybody has the same Morale Recovery except the PC. I don't know what that means.

Everybody has a listed Morale of 10. This is presumably the number that decreases with stress and returns to 10 over time.

Morale Break is the number that distinguishes different characters. My guess is that characters experience panic if their morale is reduced to this number. They fall into different groups by Morale Break as follows:

The Cowardly (Morale Break 6)
Khalid
Kagain
Garrick
Quayle
Tiax
Eldoth

The Average (Morale Break 5)
Imoen
Jaheira
Xzar
Xan
Dynaheir
Edwin
Coran
Faldorn
Skie
Alora

The Brave (Morale Break 4)
Branwen
Kivan
Yeslick
Montaron
Shar-Teel

The Very Brave (Morale Break 2)
Minsc
Ajantis

The Super Ultra Mega Brave (Morale Break 0)
The PC

[Kulyok]

Aww, that's nice. I never expected Montaron was that brave, heh.

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(oops, everyone I forgot to list has an average morale break of 5)