Please no.
Many folks have beat the game solo.
I've just finished a no long rest, no barrelmancy play through with a party of 2. (And then another no long rest no barrelmancy play through with 4 Wizards)
Players are plenty strong.
The last thing this game needs is a bigger party or more damage output.
It would make combat trivial.
I'm sure Larian will include a story mode for folks who don't want the combat to be challenging.
How can you play with 4 wizards ? There is Gale and yourself. Where do the the other 2 come from ?
And how do these wizards recover spells and survive without long rests. I assume you start from level 1, right ?
You start a multiplayer game and then start 3 more instances of the game on your computer and join the multiplayer game.
Have each instance create a Wizard and then launch the game. Once the game has started save the game and then quit out of the other 3 instances. You now have a game with four custom Wizards.
Yes I start from level 1.
With no long rests the Wizards don't ever recover spells. (With the exception of one use of Arcane Recovery per character)
You use spells sparingly relying mostly on cantrips and scrolls.
It was challenging but I really enjoyed having to think through each battle.
The downside is when I play normal play-throughs long rests feel like cheating
