For which site, fable?A magazine rather than a site, and with respect, I'm not going to say. I prefer to remain anonymous. I'm not anybody famous <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> but you'd be surprised at the kinds of grudges some people will carry a decade after you wrote a review or article they didn't like.
Technologists in a magic party do not work well. You can't heal them and they never use health/poison/mana potions anyway.I've been able to heal 'em the potions they make. Many can also be healed with spells, but admittedly the spells are less and less effective as they shift through the game further over to the techno side.
As to technologists in a magic party (or for that matter, a magicuser in a techno party), I would agree: that doesn't work well. In fact, there's something to be said for an all-magic party, where you can forego all that parts-scavenging to make items which becomes pretty annoying after a while. With an all-techno or all-magic party, you have a mutually reinforcing party gestalt (not to get tooooo pretentious <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" /> ), in which any positive skill possessed by a party member can affect all. In mixed parties, that's simply not possible.
On the other hand, I think a large, well-balanced party has a better chance of reacting successfully to any threat. There's also a greater chance that any loot you find will be useful to somebody in your group. And frankly, it's just plain fun, from my perspective. But I admit, that's just that last point is just personal prejudice.
fable: ever met a forum member named DAD here?Can't say I have.
