Originally Posted by Starblaireau
Originally Posted by Totoro
Originally Posted by Aeliasson
You can definitely change companion's +2/+1 distribution. Shadowheart should not be stuck at +1 Strength.

There is a workaround for playing custom party, when starting a new game:
- Create a new Multiplayer game. Select "Internet" and "Direct Connect". Copy the Server ID.
- Open another instance of BG3. You might need to open the game .exe directly from the game folder. If you're using BG3 mod manager, you can also use the Launch Game button from there.
- Join game via the Server ID. You can repeat this process until all party slots are filled, but you won't be able to dismiss player characters, so you might want to leave a slot open so that you can access companions.
- Launch the lobby, create the desired character on each game instance and ready everyone up to start the game
- As soon as your party is on the nautiloid ship you can close the game on your non-host characters, it will transfer control of them to your main player
Are you sure this works anymore? I know you could do that in EA but I can't make it work anymore.


I made like this for my current run except I have used 4 slots so I have no access to the origins characters now.
I still can't get this to work. It won't let me start a second session. Did you get your game on Steam? I'm wondering if the problem is because the game installed in the Steam directory. I tried copying the game into another directory but when I launched it, Steam started to download it again (and I can't seem to be able to stop it so have to wait for the download to finish). This is so frustrating just to get a fucking custom party.