[I wish my name was Baggins]

Welcome to the boards there Dragis...This is how the party A/I works. When you click on the face icon on the far left of your screen, where you go to level up, you will have to choice of selecting the customize button. Hit that. Now you can change the colors of your characters and play with them in other astetic ways here but if you click the "Script" button you will be given a list of three or four choices of automatic behavior patterns that you would like for your NPC's to follow. For example, CLERIC DEFENSIVE means that your cleric will automatically quit attacking the enemy and go start casting healing spells on any character who loses more than half of their hit points. It also means that the character will never stray too far from your character so if you move off by yourself, after you leave a certain amount of distance between the two of you the cleric will run to catch up. Occasionally this is annoying, especially while scouting or sneaking around in the shadows, so if you so desire you can make the rest of your party mindless zombies by clicking the PARTY A/I button in the lower right-hand corner and then they will only do what you specifically order them to do. I hope that answers your question and once again welcome to the boards.