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Tried to see if I could go through the game with just two characters with the following (cheese minimizing) rules:

No Barrels
No Scrolls
No Food
No Stealth
No Dip
No Pets or Summons
No Arcane Magic
No micromanaged pre-combat setup or positioning
All difficult combats done
No surfaces except for the odd alchemists fire - I think I've used them 3 times.

I have found that the following combo absolutely wrecks things even without much optimization:

Lae'zel Battlemaster + Light Cleric PC, both speced for major damage. Running Lae'zel dual wield Axe + 1 and Burning Axe and PC with dual regular longswords. Even managed to do the Gnoll fight at lvl 3, fighting them outside the cave (sword and board PC at this point). Such savagery.

I hate to think how destructive this will be if I optimized it.