What I mean is, let’s say you have a party where everyone sucks at Dex. A Barb, Sorc, Cleric and Wizard, where none of them prioritize Dex at all. What are you missing? Stealing, some scouting (in areas where you *must* cross LOS), lock picking, that’s about it. You can have a max Dex Rogue chilling in your encampment (or if 4 human players have someone respec to that), do your scouting or stealing or lock picking, swap them back out. No worries.
What about Int or Wis? Well, if it’s a check on a statue or something, you might be able to swap someone in, but a) if they fail that’s that, no retries, and b) a larger portion of those checks are within dialogue, and often you can’t go back. So unless you know ahead of time that you’ll need the check to swap them in, you either miss a lot of them or swap them in before every conversation, which is terrible.
Charisma is like that, but far worse. Yes you can have a charisma specialist hang out in camp and pull them out for vendors, but that won’t help with your limitations in dialogue unless you’re pulling them out for *every conversation *, Cha based dialogue checks are all over the place, and if you’re doing so, it would typically be a lot better and easier if you just had them as a permanent part of your party.
Str on the other hand? If you’ve got a Sorc, Rogue, Cleric, and Dex based Monk, sure your party isn’t optimal, Tavern Brawler is great among other things. But if you did have such a party, and had your strength specialist chilling in camp, when would you pull them out? What situation would require their skills, which couldn’t be handled without them? I’d argue basically never. But while the primary strength of higher strength is more damage, you can get that from anywhere. Other than Con I guess, but Int, Wis, Dex and Cha can all drive your damage and do just fine at it. Plus there’s options aplenty for temporarily boosting your Str if you really needed to, way more than say for Wis or Cha. So if I were to build a full party with a glaring weakness across the board, I’d have that weakness be Strength long before I had it be Cha.
