Which characters leave when you decide to side with Bodhi instead of the Shadow Thieves?

Keldorn and mazzy. Thats it afaik.

I gues it's because of the choice between an evil or a good path ... they will also leave when you try to kill that idiot Valygar in his cabin to enter the sphere quest so I think killing him is evil as well ... though I don't understand why ...

I don't know about Mazzy, but when I killed Valygar, Keldorn didn't leave me, he didn't even complain.

Uh... yeah, I think hunting down and assassinating a good man is generally considered an evil act. Even if you think he's an idiot. (-:

Well actually I found about it like that: My party was perfectly ballanced and the last thing I wnted was to dump a valuable party member for Valygar. I went into his cabin and (stupid me :D ) started a conversation with him and declared that I wanted to kill him because of killing cowled wizards. Mazzy and Keldorn left the party immediately. Valygar may be a victim of injust treatment, but IMHO it needs more to make him a *good* man.

This brought me to the idea to reload and to do the spere quest later, when Keldorn and Mazzy had to deal with their family. Valygar suffered a regrettable lonely death when I forgot to aid him fighting a vampire, silly me ... another hero on the glorious road to free Faerun from evil undead.

(btw - I *was not* playing my paladin then :D )

You're welcome to kill anyone in the game who annoys you; it's set up so you can. (-: But yeah, it's an evil act. Whether you think he's "really, REALLY good" or not. Whacking people who annoy you is evil. Unless they start it; then you have that self-defense claim. That's what happened between me and Saemon Havarian. *wink*

I think I am the only one who likes Valygar.

i can't stand him! he has an ok sword, which is a pain if he gets confused and attacks a weak party member, so i always kill him. do it before picking up mazzy or keldorn and dump minsc and you will have no problems. he is not hard to kill

Well I am in the underdark and have Valygar already I think it is a bit late to get Mazzy or Keldorn, but I am happy with him. My main character is also a Ranger - Stalker, together they hide in shadows and go for some backstabbing fun...

Jander, don't feel all alone. I like Valygar a lot. (-: He's a class guy, and a solid team member.

I do wish they'd developed him a little more, though. He seems to have some aborted attempting-to-maitain-celibacy plot going, and the thing with Suna was confusing and half-assed. He seems like he'd be a really great character if he had half the attention given to him that, say, Anomen got. I would have been interested in a romance with him, too, even if he does have no neck. His voice is cool. (-: