History NeverwinterNights2 / TropesSToZ

when Qara calls Neeshka "tail-for-brains" in a cutscene.

** Larger party size meant that you could have a dedicated skill monkey, arcane caster and divine caster in the group. This results in a colossal increase in effectiveness of all party members well beyond numbers alone.

* TradingBarsForStripes: You can choose to recruit criminals to your military unit.

* TightropeWalking: Discussed in a dialogue option in Storm of Zehir. When investigating the wreck of the trade ship Vigilant, if your party contains a rogue they can observe that they've stood on ropes thinner than the one that snapped in the storm. It broke because it had been partly cut through by a saboteur.

** Slightly [[JustifiedTrope justified]] in that there are several groups looking for the shards. It's not just the player and X enemy -- it's the player and X, Y, and Z factions -- some of which may be more friendly than others but all of which would much rather have the shards all to themselves.

* VisionQuest: Khelgar has one to become a monk. [[spoiler: Which is a possible subversion. While there's nothing stopping the player from going through the motions, Khelgar's stats are suboptimal for a monk. He's one of the best tanks of the game as a fighter but as a monk he loses most of his power. Also, a late-game weapon that he should be able to equip can no longer be done, due to the class change.]]

* VisionQuest: Khelgar has one to become a monk. [[spoiler: Which is a possible subversion. While there's nothing stopping the player from going through the motions, Khelgar's stats are suboptimal for a monk. He's one of the best tanks of the game as a fighter but as a monk he loses most of his power. Also, a late-game weapon that he should be able to equip can no longer be done, since he's effectively a monk now.]]

* UselessUsefulStealth: You might be a stealthy Rogue and take all the feats and all the invisibility potions you want, but you cannot slip through forced dialogue triggers. Which is problematic because after these, a fight tends to break out, and now your party members have teleported in the middle of it. You ''might'' remain undetected afterwards, as illogic as that sounds. Also, every enemy in the area that has ever seen you, even if just once, will do nothing but follow you until they roll a lucky 20 on their Spot check, or you decloak.

* UselessUsefulStealth: You might be a stealthy Rogue and take all the feats and all the invisibility potions you want, but you cannot slip through forced dialogue triggers. You ''might'' remain undetected afterwards, as illogic as that sounds. Also, every enemy in the area that has ever seen you, even if just once, will do nothing but follow you until they roll a lucky 20 on their Spot check, or you decloak.

* WarpWhistle

** [[spoiler:You can optionally [[RelationshipValues make him desert the King of Shadows]], but you can't make him fight alongside you again.]]

* WeCouldHaveAvoidedAllThis:
** [[spoiler:Ammon Jerro]] -- even lampshaded in a dialog choice.
** The PlayerCharacter can also say this to [[spoiler:the githyanki high commander.]]

** When you finally meet somebody who speaks Gith, it turns out that [[spoiler:''kalach-cha'' directly translates as "shard-bearer".]] With full nuance applied, it means [[spoiler:"one who stole a silver sword and destroyed it to hide their crime".]] Which ironically makes the term more applicable to [[spoiler:''Ammon Jerro'']] rather than the PlayerCharacter.

* YouNoTakeCandle %% Explain?

* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: You can walk the streets with a half-demon, a robot, and a ''velociraptor'' in tow, and virtually nobody bats an eye.
** [[RefugeInAudacity Then again, this is D&D.]]

* TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon: In the Original Campaign, [[spoiler:the Vale of Merdelain.]]

* WeCouldHaveAvoidedAllThis: [[spoiler:Ammon Jerro]] -- even lampshaded in a dialog choice.

* WhereItAllBegan: The [[spoiler:sealed ruins just outside of West Harbor for the final bit of the ritual.]] Perhaps more literally, [[spoiler:the final dungeon, which is implied to be directly ''beneath'' West Harbor.]]

* YouNoTakeCandle