My new fav way to play BG3: four custom characters

[Gob]

Four custom party members is a fun way to play BG3 when you've become a little jaded with playthroughs.

It is supported by the game and easy to set up if on a PC. Just run BG3.exe four times (i.e. don't launch via Steam at all). On the first instance create a LAN game, then tab to each other instance and join it. Once you've created the four custom characters and are on the nautiloid, save the game, close the four instances, start one new instance from Steam and load the save.

This has the advantages of having four properly speced characters right from the start, with good races for your chosen classes and correct abilitiy point spreads to match. It also avoids the tedious origin character chats and unnecessary plot stuff.

The only very minor downside I've found so far is that each character is considered a main (they all have crowns on their portraits), which means a very few cutscenes get repeated four times, but this is really no biggy.

[Kappa]

To me it's just a very big downside ( having 4 crowns, no interactions, no bg, etc... ).

Interactions between companions ( reaction to the tav choices ) are a big part of the game.
Getting 4 tavs adds, unfortunately, literally nothing but being able to make all choices ( rather than swapping on the main character during some dialogues ). That and being able to decide Aesthetic and, if the player plays just for numbers/stats, the race they find most approriate in terms of bonus for a given class/build.

I have played 5/6 runs 3p and 4p, and while me and my group had a blast no matter what, I kinda missed the possibility to play as a support companion rather than a tav ( not saying it should have been a default choice, but rather a possibility ).

Being able to choose whether to have crown or to move "true" companions ( with limited choices in dialogues, like in sp ) would have been perfect to me ( the fact you have to repeat scenes is because having 4 tavs is meant for mp purposes only, but I can see that being annoying in sp ).