How many people out there use their own made up charecters in their party?

[Sigmar]

Like the question says how many of you use made up charecters instead of npcs?
(Whats with these new pictures beside our ranks, the magister one looks pretty bad)


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Sigmar has only one foe,
and he is Tiax!

[Zateel]

The first time through I used characters I created. Little did I realize how much story and interaction I was missing! Ever since, I've always had at least one NPC in my party at all times, usually mostly NPCs. Although one can create a perfectly balanced, powerful party using his own characters, he will miss out on quite a bit.

It's fun to see you own characters work
though

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The Last Of the Red Fluffies

Member of the Ancients Club (@ age 16 )
High Magician of the Order of the Holy Flame


"Dream a Dreamers Dream And Know It Is But A Dream"

I always play through a game single player at least once, because I found out that if you don't, you'll miss a lot of fun. Even when you come back later, it just isn't the same when you haven't tried it the SP way.
Afterwards, I usually make my own parties and play the game that way, just to see how it would play if I had this or that kind of character.
The NPC's add a lot of background to the game

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The last arrow of Legolas kindled in the air as it flew,
and plunged burning into the heart of a great wolf-chieftain.
All the others fled. -J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

[SSJ4Sephiroth]

after i played through it once using NPCs, i decided to create a game using my PCs. i have removed the exp. cap, so they became extremely powerful. i am now doing it again, only im using my 6 most uberrific PCs in it!

[joetbd]

I've done it both ways.

Now, I'm playing the whole game through, with Imoen in my party.

Anything that adds replayability, is good.

[Diablo]

how do you create your own party (i.e all pc's)

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What you don't know can hurt you

[sunder]

Its easy. You can either play a single player game, or a multiplayer game. To use your own characters just start a multiplayer game and import your own characters. You are bascially playing a multiplayer game with yourself.
I suggest using 5 of your own characters, and leave 1 slot free so you can add ingame characters you meet to do some of their quests. That way you get the best of both worlds. Or do 4 of your own, and 2 NPC characters.

[Jak_TCM]

I did it first with all good NPCs, then with all Evil, then with a team completly made by me.
The way I did it was i made a multiplayer game, saved it, then opened the BG2 SoA folder and copied the save files from Msave (I think thats the name) to save (again, I think thats the name) then I had a team completly made by me that I could load without playing in multiplayer

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Jak
Jak_TCM@Hotmail.com

[Wah]

The only NPC I take is usually Viconia or Keldorn, but they get dumped and replaced about 1/2 ways through the game.

I use powerful wizards!! All on "wizard aggressive" script.

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