Not enough party members

[Merlanni]

So, you make a fighter charname, and either the mage or the ranger/mage dies. What is next?

Make the roque a backup mage if the mage dies? Turn your fighter into multiclassed type character? Does the game tell me to take two tanks along?

It is a waste. so many types of profession for your character, and limited companions.

[Elgar]

Read this guide :

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=339912233

It was written for the first Drakensang game, but since the rules are the same everything is valid.

[Oneeyed]

You are right at the beginning. You get a full party very very very early in the game. So I don't understand what you are complaining about.

In addition the game is very easy at that point. If you find it too hard for you than decrease the difficulty setting in your options menu.
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Originally posted by Merlanni:

So, you make a fighter charname, and either the mage or the ranger/mage dies. What is next?

Make the roque a backup mage if the mage dies? Turn your fighter into multiclassed type character? Does the game tell me to take two tanks along?

It is a waste. so many types of profession for your character, and limited companions.

[Merlanni]

Took the ranger with me, so no mage.

If you want to replay the game, you basicly need other party members.

[Merlanni]

It is just that this game is nice to play but just falls short to be great. Two more companions, a second mage for instance,

I always play mages in games, so did with the first Drakensang. for the second I decide to do not reading on the net to prevent spoilers and made an amazon. Now I have to choose between the mage and ranger while wanting them both and no alternatives.

[Oneeyed]

The "ranger" can cast as well and has already a pretty selection of spells. But I always go for Jakoon because he is a academic mage and has a better summon spell. Why didn't you just reload after you realized what's going on?

Yeah I agree there is not much choice here but I guess it was due to the fact that they went bankrupt shortly after they released the game which means during development it already was financially very tight. So they couldn't put any working hours in fancy additions like party members.

So if you really want to experiment you have to do it as a mod:

The game files are easily accessible. All relevant data are stored in sql files. Download a free sql lite editor and change the existing party members to whatever you want. Of course they will still look like Cano/Forgrimm and have their dialogue. But you can make Cano a Warrior and Forgrimm an elven girl. You need to know about the rules, though. That is because a lot of the values like base attack and base parry are values which are calculated - but of course not during you edit a sql file. These values are in the sql files as absolute values and changing them should be done by using the rules.

[Merlanni]

And so I did. Gave the ranger a few more spells. Not too cheesy though.

[Merlanni]

And adjusted the run speed.

[Oneeyed]

Yeah, I always do that, too.

Regarding the girl. If she is still a ranger than she cannot learn the human mage spells from a trainer in game.

Originally posted by Merlanni:

And adjusted the run speed.