Caninelegion - when you say "part one" and "part II", do you mean Divinity and Divinity II? I am playing Divinity, and have gotten far enough to hire/add characters to my party. I brought a mage into my party, I just want to know if I go about the game as is, and complete a bunch of quests and earn experience points, will the characters that I have NOT brought to my party earn experience points even when I don't use them...? It's been my experience that in some RPGs, the characters you DON'T play with never advance in level or earn experience points, so you have to use discretion with leveling them up along with the rest of the playable characters in the game, and with other games the characters that are available to play will earn experience points and level up even when you don't use them. So my ultimate question is... if I go about Divinity with one character played aside from the two characters I made a the beginning of the game - will the other hireable characters that I am not using earn experience points and level up along with the characters I am playing?