Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General So who else is taking Swen’s advice?

I will definitely try Swen's advice, but I am not sure whether I will dedicate my first play through to this guiding spirit. Your first ever encounter with the game is quite special, so I will have to consider it.

One way I hope to follow Swen's suggestion is picking a rag-tag party. Instead of optimising characters by race and class, I will try the least likely combinations. Ordinarily, I think people would use the strategy of:

Tank (absorb damage/heavy armour)
DPS (damage per second - destroy enemy)
Medic (heal party)
... (I don't know the name for the third role. Maybe Flanker or Socialite, for charisma interactions. Does anybody have a name?)

Usually, people would pick a Gnome Wizard, as Gnomes have higher intelligence, and that enhances their abilities to cast spells. Halfling's are famous for Thieves, due to their small size and high dexterity.

In the playthrough I have in mind, I would pick low intelligence races for magic user, like a Half-Orc, and a weak Race fighter, etc. I would also try and avoid picking a character for each of the "standard" 4 roles. I don't want to do this by picking the same class for everybody and also the same race. I will have to think about it. Any ideas?

Probably, I will pick the least effective sub-class for each class, and ensure that there is nobody with strong armour class, nobody who can heal you and nobody who can dish out a lot of damage.

It ought to be quite a funny game, worth an After Action Report, I think!