Here this will have to do, it visualizes the party of 5 (Player +4) only for the parties including the player + Shadowheart without repetition, so corresponding to just the top left Triangle in the 4 party comp image (player +3) shown in the post above...
![[Linked Image from i.ibb.co]](https://i.ibb.co/Sn19wLW/compsshadowheart.png)
Already the number of potential comps has pretty much doubled, just for the parties that might include Shadowheart. And that's before going through and doing the same for player + Astarion, player + Gale, player + Lae etc.
Same number of total characters at 10, but there are more various party compositions available without repetition when there is a 5th party member.
![[Linked Image from i.ibb.co]](https://i.ibb.co/ZBwF62z/party-comps.png)
I think it shows the scale up for the mix and match fairly well. Like you can see what I mean right?
Again having 10 characters chilling at camp all at once sorta undermines the variability for the active party comp, at any party size. People were pretty vocal about not wanting to see us locked into a particular party for the final Acts, so I'm sure that's probably why they did it the way they did. The Camp does overshadow things a bit though, since all the main story driven stuff is delivered there for the most part. Everyone levels to match the protagonist, everyone can change their class and attributes via Wither's respec etc. We're not really losing out on much if we back bench somebody temporarily, cause they'll probably still get their lines in somewhere hehe. Active party composition would be more for the core party during final finale I guess, or for re-players who are interested in pursuing this stuff from a mechanical standpoint, say with restrictions based on the companion defaults maybe.
Anyway TLDR, with a party of 5 we'd have had an additional 90 party comps available. A Party of 6 would have been 132 additional party comps available, compared to a party of 4. Still just using the same 10 peeps in the roster. Ballpark almost twice as many parties just from adding a 5th slot on the active team.