This article popped up couple hours ago on PC gamer

https://www.pcgamer.com/increase-your-baldurs-gate-3-party-size-to-8-characters-with-this-mod/

I saw the party limit begone updated like an hour ago. If it works I'm hoping the harder difficulty level scales alright just going with that mod. Got a few days here waiting in the wings, but it'd be fun to try the first out with 6 like I got in my head
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