I’ll admit I’m in the prefer 6 group, but other than nostalgia for the BG series, do I need more than 4?
5e supplied so much crossover that I don’t quite need the quantity of characters to cover the skills like you needed in 2e.
To boot, Larian have already said we can get mercenaries or tag along a later on that temporarily bolster the group size.
So do we want 6 for nostalgia, for the party interaction maybe?
I’m also actually not against losing characters, because frankly the concept of people waiting at a camp location until you the protagonist come back pretty offensive. It’s lazy in this day and age and makes zero sense.
At least Dragon Age inquisition had a castle and other tasks that had to be done, so you got the concept of splitting up but keeping choice.
