Party size - few or many?

[Chrisern]

I like RPGs and D&D, but I'm not overly enthusiastic about having a large party with many members. I haven't bought this game yet, but I am considering it.

Can you choose to have just two or three party members, so that they get much XP, or are you bound to growing your party as the narrative in the game dictates?

[Zeel Ara]

It's four people party size. You can run with fewer people but there's no change in XP.

[dbond1]

Play with one, play with four or anything in between.

[victorvnv]

You can solo the game especially on Lower difficulties if you know what you are doing. Everyone scales with experience so if you solo and you get to lvl 6 for example, everyone on your party will be lvl 6. So you aren’t gaining more exp but your companions also don’t lose exp if you prefer to play alone .
If you play alone, stealthy gameplay is optimal

[Ironwu]

Do know that the game is very much balanced for a 4-party group: DPS Caster, DPS Melee, DPS Thief, DPS Buffer-Debuffer.

There are enough immediate Companions for all 4 of those roles with little or no Combat to get them. Whichever role YOU choose to fill, that Companion should be sent to camp.

For an easy time learning the game, play on Explorer mode. You can always switch up to a higher difficulty at any time.

You can play Solo, or with a party of one, two, or three Companions. But any party of less than four characters total and/or not balanced well will make thing much more difficult.

Above all, have fun! :)

[guard65]

You can run less than four if you want. It takes a mod to run more than four.

Just note that adding more party members and or monsters will tax your system more. So if you already have issues with graphics it is probably not a good idea.

That said I am running a party of five, with extra combat spawns with extra abilities. It does make for a longer fight but with turn based I am running three monitors and streaming video, and surfing the net on the other two monitors at the same time.

[Chaosolous]

You can solo it if you want, but you'll miss a substantial amount of content tbh. The companions add a lot to the overall adventure with their arcs. You can skip turns if you want to not overly simplify the combat.