I for one would rather have myself and maybe one other. I've always liked it streamlined like that, no fussing about with all the other NPC and there gear ... combat blah.
Four party members is more than I would like in a video game, PnP give me a full crew. ( And no Im am not trying to derail your tread by making this a TB or real time combat ) but honestly Im curious how long it will take with 4 party member and say 5 or 6 monsters let alone 6 party members to just finish a round. No keep it at 4 or give us the option to opt out of playing with Npc I could go for that.
Not sure if you played DOS2. The time will be roughly the same as DOS2. Unless you play custom mercenaries, I doubt you going to have 5 or 6 monsters. Also those summons won't last long. Possibly just a few turns and they are lackluster in level scaling.
You have to keep resummon in DOS2. If there's limited number of casts then you can't resummon.
