This is definitely a frequently requested feature, but I don’t think we’ve had any comment from Larian on it.
Personally, I’m single-player only but this would be so good for making my companions feel more alive and important, and I can see how it would be even more essential for multiplayer.
Yeah. I just wish they'd come out and say they're adding it.
It's basically the one major thing holding the game back from being great, IMO, because I either have to:
1. Do skillchecks blind (And get frustrated when a party member could have done it better/feel bad when my co-op teammate could have done it better)
Or
2. Read spoilers so I can know who to use when.
I think that such a mode should be limited to whomever is in your active party (No getting bonuses from anyone back at camp), to encourage diverse builds. But as it stands right now; there's no point in having diverse builds because you're locked into whoever hits the event flag or talks to the NPC with a hidden quest first.