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I like smaller parties both for increased levelling and increased chances for skill development. It also can add to the challenge of the game, which is invaluable for veteran players. Taken to an extreme, these are the same motives for people who enjoy playing solos. To this day, I've never heard of anyone completing the game with a solo gadgeteer, which may very well prove to be the ultimate challenge. Personally, I tend to prefer faerie bishops rather than elves for improved spell point regeneration. I tend not to play fighters too often, even with small parties, although there are obvious advantages to doing so. In general, I do tend to play bishops in almost all my parties regardless of size, both to balance out the spell books, and because they're probably my favourite characters overall. On the whole, I see small parties as a chance to more fully develop a character, so the hybrids are my favourite choice because it's much more difficult to raise their skills sufficiently in a full party. One of my favourite small parties without a bishop was an asian themed party of monk, ninja, and samurai. Obviously the early game with a party like this is quite difficult, but if you can hang in there, and develop your hybrid's magic a bit, it's really quite thrilling, and makes you think of the game in a new way. It all depends on the level of challenge that suits you at the time. Also, Flamestryke's mod now makes it possible to consider smaller parties that might not seem viable otherwise.
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