Larian Studios Forums Divinity - Original Sin Divinity - Original Sin - General Why can't we build the entire party

Love the game but unsure why we can only build 2 characters of the max 4. What is the benefit of this approach, versus letting me tailor all 4 ?

Is it viable to create the initial two, play until can hire at hall of heroes and then use character editor to tailor the remaining two ?

Thanks

The 2 main characters are involved in the main plot of the game. Henchmen have no quests, they are just mercenaries. Companions do have quests associated with them, and comments to make on various situations; you can recruit companions fairly shortly after getting to Cyseal, if you know where to go, without opening the hall of heroes.

Having 4 characters at character creation would mean either 4 main characters (more than doubling the amount of dialogue needed for them, and making quests and QA more complicated), or 2 main characters and 2 custom henchmen (which would make the companions, and all the work put into their quests, kind of pointless).

Thanks very much. I was not aware of the companion quests...

Their backstories are pretty interesting. Building all four would take from the game.

But one thing I have to add. Henchmen are pretty useless. They don't level unless you stick with one of them all through the game.

Havent even used a henchman yet, Wolgraff is my goto NPC, I had Bairdotr but she is not as much to my preferences. I always lone wolf at lkeast one of my chars so never need more than 1 NPC. I want to Lon WOlf both PC's but wonder about the way it would play, sometimes I fell pretty heavily outnumbered.

Wolgraff is actually a lot like another PC.

I think 2 PC's does work pretty well, if I designed all four I would probably want fewer but better PC's instead....which is what it works out to be like now anyway.

Maybe OP didnt realize your PC's can each have a follower if not lone wolfed. Makes sense I didnt know anything about this game before I bought it. But I am very glad I did.