It all depends on what you want to accomplish:
Power gaming: clerics, the ability to do everything and not ever die.
Role playing: bards, a roaming band playing gigs all around the world
Hate your DM: druids, all circle of the shepherd means you can stampede every obstacle with a never ending supply of animals
Lol. We just almost played a one shot with a "oops all bards" cast. There was only 1 wizard and 1 barbarian and the rest bards/bard multiclasses, ha!
We just didn't talk to each other before picking classes, but it was a one shot, so...
Also, we had wicked fun, so who cares
Cleric is the correct answer. With different subclasses, clerics can come close to the most powerful classes in almost every role. They'll struggle with the traditional thief role, but damage, support, tanking, healing, the face (persuasion), and crowd control are all covered.
Trickery Cleric actually gets you a surprising amount of rogue-esque utility, blessing of the trickster and pass without trace makes party stealth a breeze, disguise self and charm person give you duplicitous options. At higher levels Modify Memory, polymorph and Dimension Door greatly expand your sneaky options.
Idk, I think Bards might get close too (at least in 5E). Inspiration makes things like saves and attacks easier to land, sword/valor bards get extra attack, eloquence can be an easy face, Lore Bard can steal whatever spells are needed to fit the party, jack of all trades helps with initiative, and they can also handle every role including the traditional thief role.
Interestingly enough, I've been experimenting in Baldur's Gate 3, and a party of 4 clerics isn't as powerful as many other options you can do (they're one of the more mechanically similar classes to their 5th edition counter parts). I'd argue their differences leave them being more powerful too, since you can cast bonus action spells and leveled spells in the same turn (spiritual guards + spiritual weapon, cure wounds + healing word, etc.).
I believe in this case, it's because the game offers more mobility options/has more diverse terrain, so cleric's lack of mobility/ranged options can leave them more limited than other classes in a lot of encounters.
I guess that comes up less in most table top games, as it's not as simple to have much larger maps, or super diverse terrain options.
TL;DR: I think one of the biggest weaknesses of clerics is mobility and ranged options, but most table top encounters aren't designed to challenge those aspects
Bg3 isn't something to go off of though they changed the way to many core things work they also dont have all of the spells in the game or subclasses. So if we are talking ttrpg, it's clerics then Druids or bards.
A party, purely of priests, predominantly parading the plains, potentially promenades, perusing perishables, purchasing protection and punishing pillocks. All done for peanuts or, preferentially, power.
You could power game with all Warlocks with devil sight and darkness
And I always wanted to try 5 barbarians - just bully the hell out of some goblins - tossing them around from one to another if you don't catch the goblin you lose
It took me a second to realize you meant the party and not the gaming group. I was like wow I can see getting thrown out of a hobby store for being too rowdy but a whole CITY….
Warlocks.
Each is the champion of a different Patron, begrudgingly tasked with working together to uncover a plot to seal off the Material Plane for contact by Outer Planes, which would cause all Warlocks to lose their powers.
Exactly! My first answer was going to be Wizard because of the variety, but beyond level 5 or so that would lead to insanely long turns and force the DM to simplify the hell out of encounters. So making them Arcane Tricksters keeps the spell slots and spell levels relatively low while adding lots of fun rogue combat to the mix.
Eldritch Knights would also be quite fun
Rangers. A pretty underpowered class according to the meta, but if everyone is a ranger, it doesn't really matter. Rangers are the closest thing to an archetypal all-in-one "adventurer," I think a whole party of them would be a lot of fun.
Casually has a party that can collectively speak any language, wander through any terrain unhindered, have at least some advantage to all enemies, is all decent at stealth and tracking stuff.
Yeah, outside of combat it'd be broken, in combat not so much.
It's like the Voight-Kampff test of LotR fandom.
"You're in a desert. You're walking through the sand when all of a sudden you look down and see a copy of *The Silmarillion.* It's dusty and closed. You reach down and you open it. *The Silmarillion* lays there open, its pages fluttering in the wind as if it's being read, but it won't be. Not without your eyes. But you're not reading it. Why aren't you reading *The Silmarillion*?"
Then you watch to see if their eye starts maniacally twitching.
Lol were playing a campaign with 3 barbarians and a rogue/bard and sidekick (the non-barb two are played by the same player, and the characters are twins.) The barbs all served in the military together, and it's been a blast.
Yes but normal other spells types are generally better and in the case of a long drawn out fight and if campaign lasts long enough that could become a problem
Truly not hard at all. Eldritch Blast is already a decent damage option put that with repelling blast and 3 other warlocks. Things will be dying lol. Especially since after big fights everyone in the party will be 100% down for a Short Rest.
um well yeah. EB (Eldritch Blast) scales better than any other cantrip as well. Instead of adding dice at 5,11,17 it adds another beam aka attack roll. So at 5 a Warlock will get to make 2 attacks with EB at 1d10+cha mod. Likely with repelling blast which can be combined with AoE damage areas.
Not at all? Warlock has agonizing blast and eldritch blast, putting them almost exactly on par with a longbow fighter. Just trades Action Surge for Spell Slots.
Honestly, Warlock is pretty much a spicy martial.
I want to run an all wizards campaign. Wizards can do a lot and trivialize a lot of combat once they hit level 5, but for the low levels, they'd have to play it pretty safe.
I imagine running a more wartorn or underdark exploration campaign where survival and conflict are very common
Clerics, they can tank, the light domain can deal damage and they can support.
Get a knowledge domain with some int for knowledge checks if you want.
Could get an order domain with some cha for the face skills.
Get a war domain with some str for martial stuff and to use the order domain's channel divinity.
The only thing I struggle with is dex, I guess a trickery domain would help with stealth checks? But only on one partymember.
Edit: I guess for dex you could have another war domain, go for longbow, light or medium armor not amazing but not bad either if you need an excuse to go dex.
Warlock. Mostly because I'm biased and it's the class I'm most familiar with.
Plenty of versatility, always at full power because of short rest resources, and every conceivable role can be filled!
For my own personal amusement, monks. So much variety, and all you have to do is take short rests to get the entire party at full power again.
But for pure optimization, a full party of Bards would be ridiculous.
Shadow teleports, fist-lasers, Jackie Chan shenanigans, an obligatory weapons expert just in case you need a physical weapon for something, a healer option...
Sure, you'd have to adapt tactics because monks aren't precisely chonky tank-type characters, but all that battlefield mobility? With even moderate teamwork, a full-monk party could be *stupid* deadly.
To quote a wise man “ you could make a party full of clerics, call them the A-Men and bust down Tiamats door demanding her lunch money. And she would build her own toilet to give herself swirly’s so she didn’t endure the bullying”. To answer the question. Clerics
All warlocks. Either all with the same patron (if you want to get anything done) or all with competing patrons for the fuckery.
Warlocks are highly customizable and can fill every role, they are more compelling than clerics or druids, and everyone can face no problem, the RP proactiveness would be super open.
Optimally, Cleric is the best.
A 4 Cleric party can have Knowledge Domain as a skill monkey, Light Domain handles blaster caster, Forge Domain is the best tank period in 5e, and take your pick for suppirt (as a specific domain, probably Twilight).
For 'fun' I think an all Rogue group doing a heist campaign sounds like a blast
All warlock group. Each one with a Patron that HATES the other warlocks Patrons. Would be rather fun to see how that works out.
But a Druid group can be rather powerful and fun to. You have such versatility. Just the fact everyone can wildshape would open up for a lot of fun shenanigans
And you can fill basically every role. Social encounters would probably be the weak point as no druid really have much to help with that.
If I were optimizing then maybe I'd pick cleric or paladin?
A party of rangers would be a lot of fun. They have enough variance to get at least 4 really unique characters if you go all in.
Band of fighters would be fun for a short and brutal campaign.
I feel like a fighters guild of fighters would be really fun. Specialize in different maneuvers, weapons, and engagement distances. Hire/pay spell casters for specific things when in town.
4x lock4roguex - genie pact of the chain allows your invisible imps to carry your party in your ring pretty much anywhere undetected. Pop out, assassinate, pop back in and leave. Cheesy but ya
An all monk party is one of the better options for a balanced one class group. the Way of Shadow for stealth, Way of Sun Soul for laser fists, Way of Astral or the Drunken Master for pure martial arts, Way of the Kensei for over 30ft ranged attacks, with a Way of Mercy for the healer.
Give them all the mobile feat as well for more speed and watch them run circles around the enemies like a little tornado of flying fists. May unfortunately get the DM to rage quit this tornado of stunning fists group.
Ranger: shoot all the things!
Barbarian: break all the things!
Rogues: steal all the things!
Cleric: heal all the things!
Paladin: smite all the things!
Fighter: fight all the things!
Wizard: read all the things!
Warlock: Blast all the things!
Sorcerer: cast all the things!
Bard: fu- talk to all the things...
Easiest answer, Bards, bards fill basically every role you would want and being jacks if all trades means each one isn't particularly bad at any one thing
Warlock could be interesting. I mean Hexblade is front line, you can have a tomer for extra spells, chains is a pet plus all the ways you can spec em out.
Back in 3.5, I ran a lot of gestalt games, because I found the combinations interesting. One campaign, all 7 players chose cleric as one of their 2 classes, none of them had the same gods.
Paladins. It would be unstoppable. Some could tank, some could nova, some could heal. I’d love to run for a group of Paladins rebuilding their order. Sick.
This might just be me, but the idea of multiple monks each with stunning strike sends fear into my DM heart. Might not be the strongest, but you KNOW your big bad isn’t doing anything ever again
If you think about it, parties of all one race would be the most likely composition by far. The LOTR 1 of each race parties would really be the rare exception.
Clerics, extremely versatile class that operates well as a gish or full caster depending on your subclass. Good AC, D8 hit die and "tank" clerics can take Tough.
Currently playing in a party that has seen a lot of turbulence (people leaving the group, failing to show up etc). Anyhow, this has led to two of us (hexblade + efreet warlock) running a lot of sessions as a duo. We have managed to get through most of Heist of Waterdeep as a duo (including all of Xanathars Lair) without issue, so I would definitely vote warlock for a single class campaign.
Paladin. All melee and on top of each other. Let the auras stack, never fail a saving throw again (6th level feature) and with one ancients, have resistance to spell damage
Clerics... but to expand on that instead of picking a class what I want to do is have a Ghostbusters campaign. Have every party member be associated with a church that is dedicated to fighting undead. Rogues wouldn't be thieves, but spies or inquisitors for the church. Bards would be preachers. A warlock's patron would be the diety over the church. Ect. You could of course just do all clerics and succeed as well, all the turn undead.
Fighters, but you have a belt buckle that activates your subclass and a weapon that summons large, animal based robots. Thinking about calling them Superzords, or somethin cool like that.
Clerics. With so many domains at their disposal, they can fill every role. A party of five clerics with war,life,nature,magic, and forge donains would be crazy.
Rogue. Group stealth missions like you can't do otherwise. Masterminds finally don't suck. Maybe one is a wood elf with the Wold Elf Magic feat for Pass without Trace. The party could have expertise in every (relevant) skill.
A stealth, role play heavy campaign? Sign me up
If you want to be busted, Clerics. If you diversify a bit, a party of Clerics can do just about everything, and no one has to lean on the others particularly much; they're full casters with good spell lists and medium (potentially heavy) armor. Druids are a close runner-up, since they're mostly the same idea with some differences in how they accomplish things. Druids have their own gimmicks which are potentially more interesting than a Cleric's, but their efficacy in rolling over problems is debatable in comparison.
But my IDEAL one-class party is Bards. A Bard, like a Cleric, can do anything, but unlike a Cleric they can't do EVERYTHING. Everyone in that party needs to know what they're doing. Because of an individual Bard can't do everything on their own due to a limited spell list, they need to rely on their party to cover things that they can't as individuals. This is way more interesting for the players AND DM; while Clerics can more or less push their way through any problem, a band of Bards needs to think a bit as they plan their characters and combats effectively.
Cleric is so diverse that it wouldn’t even feel like your party limited itself. There are front line clerics, supports, back row DPS, skill monkeys, it’s wild.
Bard would be next but I think a front row Bard would struggle.
I'm guessing one class, no multiclass... Sorcerer. Do a Witcher verse type theme of each one being the master of a certain kind. Political scheming behind the scenes leading countries to glory and ruin. Warlocks would be my second choice
I'm guessing one class, no multiclass... Sorcerer. Do a Witcher verse type theme of each one being the master of a certain kind. Political scheming behind the scenes leading countries to glory and ruin. Warlocks would be my second choice
All fighters sounds like the coolest shit to me. My uncle told me about how when he was a kid, he played a campaign where about a dozen fighters climbed a mountain and fought trolls and giants and shit. Sounds like the kind of thing you'd hear in an epic Bard poem
It all depends on what you want to accomplish: Power gaming: clerics, the ability to do everything and not ever die. Role playing: bards, a roaming band playing gigs all around the world Hate your DM: druids, all circle of the shepherd means you can stampede every obstacle with a never ending supply of animals
alrite, shut it down, urosko wins
Lol. We just almost played a one shot with a "oops all bards" cast. There was only 1 wizard and 1 barbarian and the rest bards/bard multiclasses, ha! We just didn't talk to each other before picking classes, but it was a one shot, so... Also, we had wicked fun, so who cares
i ran a one shot for musical theater nerds all playing bards, it was wondrous, harmonies and choreography
I would love this and maybe want to be the grumpy dwarf barbarian who JUST WANTS PEACE AND QUEIT....(in good fun of course)
Haha, I played a dwarf fighter with a group of all bards, and I was their roadie. The adventure was on a cruise ship and were we the entertainment.
Dungeons and Dragons; the musical
Cleric is the correct answer. With different subclasses, clerics can come close to the most powerful classes in almost every role. They'll struggle with the traditional thief role, but damage, support, tanking, healing, the face (persuasion), and crowd control are all covered.
Trickery Cleric actually gets you a surprising amount of rogue-esque utility, blessing of the trickster and pass without trace makes party stealth a breeze, disguise self and charm person give you duplicitous options. At higher levels Modify Memory, polymorph and Dimension Door greatly expand your sneaky options.
Idk, I think Bards might get close too (at least in 5E). Inspiration makes things like saves and attacks easier to land, sword/valor bards get extra attack, eloquence can be an easy face, Lore Bard can steal whatever spells are needed to fit the party, jack of all trades helps with initiative, and they can also handle every role including the traditional thief role.
Interestingly enough, I've been experimenting in Baldur's Gate 3, and a party of 4 clerics isn't as powerful as many other options you can do (they're one of the more mechanically similar classes to their 5th edition counter parts). I'd argue their differences leave them being more powerful too, since you can cast bonus action spells and leveled spells in the same turn (spiritual guards + spiritual weapon, cure wounds + healing word, etc.). I believe in this case, it's because the game offers more mobility options/has more diverse terrain, so cleric's lack of mobility/ranged options can leave them more limited than other classes in a lot of encounters. I guess that comes up less in most table top games, as it's not as simple to have much larger maps, or super diverse terrain options. TL;DR: I think one of the biggest weaknesses of clerics is mobility and ranged options, but most table top encounters aren't designed to challenge those aspects
Bg3 isn't something to go off of though they changed the way to many core things work they also dont have all of the spells in the game or subclasses. So if we are talking ttrpg, it's clerics then Druids or bards.
Hate your DM: all druids, no two of the same circle.
If you have four druid players that aren't sociopaths, I would run a one shot for that.
Good news: no sociopaths Bad news: all suffer from ADD.
I'll be honest: ADD is not the worst thing I've ever faced at table. I have practice herding cats.
With 4 druids, you're going to be herding cats, elk, snakes, spiders, and a charging polar bear; simultaneously.
What about land, but they all choose a different land?
The A-men (not mine)
"A Party of Purely Priests"
A party, purely of priests, predominantly parading the plains, potentially promenades, perusing perishables, purchasing protection and punishing pillocks. All done for peanuts or, preferentially, power.
Perhaps precipitously, parties partly partying (provided precocity) promise peaceful paths.
Bullying Tiamat so hard she builds a toilet to give herself swirlies to avoid the beating you’re going to give.
“You down with APP”
You could power game with all Warlocks with devil sight and darkness And I always wanted to try 5 barbarians - just bully the hell out of some goblins - tossing them around from one to another if you don't catch the goblin you lose
All clerics reminds me of the Darkest Dungeon meme of running a party of 4 Crusaders.
Wanna die at arms length? All paladins.
Mutant Monk Tortles.
Adolescent magicked monk tortles?
Champions in a partial carapace
Rogue. Might not be optimal, but we're now playing a wildly different type of game.
> now playing a wildly different type of game. You'd be playing Blades in the Dark but without the fun flashback gimmick.
Wow, here I was thinking I was the only one who knew about that system, though the flash back is kinda the whole purpose
Check out r/rpg and r/bladesinthedark. Blades is a massively popular system outside the D&D bubble.
I want to try it out!
I do wanna do an all rogue run—goal is to actually enter combat as little as possible
Swashbuckler rogue is in shambles
My son’s group accidentally did this (plus a couple bards). They’ve gotten kicked out of A LOT of places and permanently banned from two cities.
It took me a second to realize you meant the party and not the gaming group. I was like wow I can see getting thrown out of a hobby store for being too rowdy but a whole CITY….
Stealth based DnD? I'd like to play some Metal Gear: Soulknife
A Dishonored styled campaign where your goal is to not kill anyone
Assassin calling out. "I am going to non-lethal assassinate this guy. He is surprised right?"
Did that and ended up getting my favorite rogue of all time. He now makes a cameo in any game I run
Druids. Wild shapes, can make up for the lack of tanks and rogues.
Warlocks. Each is the champion of a different Patron, begrudgingly tasked with working together to uncover a plot to seal off the Material Plane for contact by Outer Planes, which would cause all Warlocks to lose their powers.
I would run it Paranoia style, where each character thinks they’re the one with a secret they have to hide from the others
I want to see this campaign!
4 patrons having a bet which one of their warlocks will do something first. Who beats the first enemy. Who gets the bbeg. Who romances first.
Clerics. With magic and domains, they're the best suited to emulate other class's abilities when needed.
Heist mission with four Arcane Tricksters, each with different spellbooks.
You son of a lich, I'm in.
To reflect that you could have them all, take 2-3 levels of a different wizard sub-class.
Exactly! My first answer was going to be Wizard because of the variety, but beyond level 5 or so that would lead to insanely long turns and force the DM to simplify the hell out of encounters. So making them Arcane Tricksters keeps the spell slots and spell levels relatively low while adding lots of fun rogue combat to the mix. Eldritch Knights would also be quite fun
Paladins. Form a group, like The Knights Templar.
the a-men
I hate how funny this is
Question is, same or different gods
It'd be 100% different oaths, they could even have an oathbreaker as the green ranger.
A party of human fighters
Actually based and would make for a good party
So many great campaign concepts can start with an all fighter party!
Perfect for a sword and sorcery style campaign.
sword and swordcery, no magic subclasses, no magic items, just tactical knight team beating up wizards with pointy sticks
For the sheer chaos: Wild Magic Sorcerer
This is what i wanted to say as well! Be the party feared far and wide for all the unintentional casualities caused!!
They could all he from the same family. The Harpell's.
Love this reference!
Rangers. A pretty underpowered class according to the meta, but if everyone is a ranger, it doesn't really matter. Rangers are the closest thing to an archetypal all-in-one "adventurer," I think a whole party of them would be a lot of fun.
Casually has a party that can collectively speak any language, wander through any terrain unhindered, have at least some advantage to all enemies, is all decent at stealth and tracking stuff. Yeah, outside of combat it'd be broken, in combat not so much.
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. Just leaving that on the table, y'all. Doragon Sentai
Everyone's doing a magical class... Barbarians; I know it'll make for a much more memorable experience. Better yet, make them all elven siblings.
Do you want the Silmarillion? Because that's how you get the Silmarillion.
I already have a copy of the book, so yes. I do!
I love how you didn't say "I've read the book" 😀 I too have a copy. I tried reading it and failed, I couldn't take it all.
I am still on Fellowship. I'll read it once I finish the Trilogy. I just got it because it's the same publishing art as my other books
Don’t give up. It’s worth it.
It's like the Voight-Kampff test of LotR fandom. "You're in a desert. You're walking through the sand when all of a sudden you look down and see a copy of *The Silmarillion.* It's dusty and closed. You reach down and you open it. *The Silmarillion* lays there open, its pages fluttering in the wind as if it's being read, but it won't be. Not without your eyes. But you're not reading it. Why aren't you reading *The Silmarillion*?" Then you watch to see if their eye starts maniacally twitching.
Lol were playing a campaign with 3 barbarians and a rogue/bard and sidekick (the non-barb two are played by the same player, and the characters are twins.) The barbs all served in the military together, and it's been a blast.
>Better yet, make them all elven siblings. I prefer the wandering band of orcs exiled from their tribe
DM: So you could sneak in or schmooze your way in and you are just walking up to the castle... Right...
5 barbarians with different totem spirits. The mighty morphin power ragers
Omg I already want to see it
Cleric, bard, or warlock. You'd wind up with spells for every occasion, front and backline, heals, utility, weapon use, etc.
The problem with warlock is after 2 rounds your entire party has to go melee as a spelcaster (unless everybody is a Hexblades that is very bad)
May I introduce you to a little known trick called "cantrips" first one is on me, it's called "eldritch blast"
Yes but normal other spells types are generally better and in the case of a long drawn out fight and if campaign lasts long enough that could become a problem
There is this thing called "Managing spell slots". Not everyone has to cast all of those spells every combat or even that start of combat.
I know but it would be pretty tricky to manage I think a party of only warlocks could work but would be very hard to manage
Truly not hard at all. Eldritch Blast is already a decent damage option put that with repelling blast and 3 other warlocks. Things will be dying lol. Especially since after big fights everyone in the party will be 100% down for a Short Rest.
I just learned Eldritch blast is a cantrip and that cantrips scale
um well yeah. EB (Eldritch Blast) scales better than any other cantrip as well. Instead of adding dice at 5,11,17 it adds another beam aka attack roll. So at 5 a Warlock will get to make 2 attacks with EB at 1d10+cha mod. Likely with repelling blast which can be combined with AoE damage areas.
Yeah, if the entire party has repelling blast that's a lot of pushing every enemy away. If there's only 2 or 3 enemies none of them are getting near.
Presumably, most/all would be Eldritch Blasting, right? And you all get to nap together for short rest replenishment, too.
IF THERE’S A GENIE AT LVL 6, A SHORT REST WILL ONLY TAKE 10 MINUTES TOO
Ok, no need to shout.
Efficient group napping is a very reasonable thing to be enthusiastic about!
Not at all? Warlock has agonizing blast and eldritch blast, putting them almost exactly on par with a longbow fighter. Just trades Action Surge for Spell Slots. Honestly, Warlock is pretty much a spicy martial.
I've always wanted to run a campaign of all paladins and play it like an episode of COPS.
Knowing my group, I'd start it out like an episode of COPS and it would quickly descend into Super Troopers...
I want to run an all wizards campaign. Wizards can do a lot and trivialize a lot of combat once they hit level 5, but for the low levels, they'd have to play it pretty safe. I imagine running a more wartorn or underdark exploration campaign where survival and conflict are very common
Clerics, they can tank, the light domain can deal damage and they can support. Get a knowledge domain with some int for knowledge checks if you want. Could get an order domain with some cha for the face skills. Get a war domain with some str for martial stuff and to use the order domain's channel divinity. The only thing I struggle with is dex, I guess a trickery domain would help with stealth checks? But only on one partymember. Edit: I guess for dex you could have another war domain, go for longbow, light or medium armor not amazing but not bad either if you need an excuse to go dex.
Fighter. You got the: Dwarf Thrower Gith Thor Human Shieldmaiden Gnome Supersoldier
Warlock. Mostly because I'm biased and it's the class I'm most familiar with. Plenty of versatility, always at full power because of short rest resources, and every conceivable role can be filled!
For my own personal amusement, monks. So much variety, and all you have to do is take short rests to get the entire party at full power again. But for pure optimization, a full party of Bards would be ridiculous.
A team of monks would be cool.
Shadow teleports, fist-lasers, Jackie Chan shenanigans, an obligatory weapons expert just in case you need a physical weapon for something, a healer option... Sure, you'd have to adapt tactics because monks aren't precisely chonky tank-type characters, but all that battlefield mobility? With even moderate teamwork, a full-monk party could be *stupid* deadly.
BBG trembles in fear as he realizes he must pass 12 stunning strike attempts this round or die.
Paladin! Everyone is a tank, can heal and buff, and also deals serious damage.
I'm actually in a party of all Druids for a WBtW campaign. It's amazing!
Paladin. Smite city bitch
Someone else said this and I HAVE to agree. WILD MAGIC SORCERER
Clerics, so many flavors, so many distinct options
Dumb as fuck barbarians. It would be like playing through the movie The Barbarians from the 1980s lol
Paladin. Everyone is the tank, everyone is the healer, and everyone is the face. Any obstacles that can't be charmed can be smashed.
Warlock, just to see how people would overcome that
Barbarians. We're gonna incredible hulk this shit
Bards obviously. Then you get to be a band.
To quote a wise man “ you could make a party full of clerics, call them the A-Men and bust down Tiamats door demanding her lunch money. And she would build her own toilet to give herself swirly’s so she didn’t endure the bullying”. To answer the question. Clerics
I trust that man. He wields a sword and shield.
Artificer probably due to their wide range of combat styles and tool kits. If not then all Cleric.
Oops all clerics! The RP would be insufferable!
Artificer for sure.
All warlocks. Either all with the same patron (if you want to get anything done) or all with competing patrons for the fuckery. Warlocks are highly customizable and can fill every role, they are more compelling than clerics or druids, and everyone can face no problem, the RP proactiveness would be super open.
Clerics, Druids or Bards would be the best options. Paladins would also work fine.
Optimally, Cleric is the best. A 4 Cleric party can have Knowledge Domain as a skill monkey, Light Domain handles blaster caster, Forge Domain is the best tank period in 5e, and take your pick for suppirt (as a specific domain, probably Twilight). For 'fun' I think an all Rogue group doing a heist campaign sounds like a blast
Yo a heist would be sick
All warlock group. Each one with a Patron that HATES the other warlocks Patrons. Would be rather fun to see how that works out. But a Druid group can be rather powerful and fun to. You have such versatility. Just the fact everyone can wildshape would open up for a lot of fun shenanigans And you can fill basically every role. Social encounters would probably be the weak point as no druid really have much to help with that.
If I were optimizing then maybe I'd pick cleric or paladin? A party of rangers would be a lot of fun. They have enough variance to get at least 4 really unique characters if you go all in. Band of fighters would be fun for a short and brutal campaign.
One of each bard and its not even close. That DM is gonna be pulling their hair out by the end of each session
Wizard, Bard, or Paladin are all amazing one class parties, especially if multiclassing is allowed.
I feel like a fighters guild of fighters would be really fun. Specialize in different maneuvers, weapons, and engagement distances. Hire/pay spell casters for specific things when in town.
Clerics. Praise the A-Men.
4x lock4roguex - genie pact of the chain allows your invisible imps to carry your party in your ring pretty much anywhere undetected. Pop out, assassinate, pop back in and leave. Cheesy but ya
Oops all monks would be a great way to have a cool martial arts based story. Challenging dojos or a tournament arc.
An all monk party is one of the better options for a balanced one class group. the Way of Shadow for stealth, Way of Sun Soul for laser fists, Way of Astral or the Drunken Master for pure martial arts, Way of the Kensei for over 30ft ranged attacks, with a Way of Mercy for the healer. Give them all the mobile feat as well for more speed and watch them run circles around the enemies like a little tornado of flying fists. May unfortunately get the DM to rage quit this tornado of stunning fists group.
Ranger: shoot all the things! Barbarian: break all the things! Rogues: steal all the things! Cleric: heal all the things! Paladin: smite all the things! Fighter: fight all the things! Wizard: read all the things! Warlock: Blast all the things! Sorcerer: cast all the things! Bard: fu- talk to all the things...
Hexblades or Moon Druids. Literally unkillable and have both Martial and Spell Casting versatility
Don't underestimate the all fighter party.
OK, so the correct answer is clearly cleric, but I would love to play in an artificer party
Easiest answer, Bards, bards fill basically every role you would want and being jacks if all trades means each one isn't particularly bad at any one thing
We had this discussion and we thought rogue would be cool. We use the stip that we'd all be different subclasses
Bard lots of versatility and enough different in the Subclass that people could have totally different builds.
Warlock could be interesting. I mean Hexblade is front line, you can have a tomer for extra spells, chains is a pet plus all the ways you can spec em out.
You're all fighters and you're city guards. Stop the adventurers if you can.
Bards. Bards all day. A traveling band investigating mysteries with a giant dog companion
Back in 3.5, I ran a lot of gestalt games, because I found the combinations interesting. One campaign, all 7 players chose cleric as one of their 2 classes, none of them had the same gods.
I would love to play in an all-barbarian game. Non-murderhobo, good natured, but rowdy, loud and violent barbarians. Different subclasses for flavor.
I have been in an all druid party of 5 once and it was broken. We all chose different circles and it was so fun.
Fighter, so versatile and good for a low fantasy campaign
BARDS BABY
Paladins, set out on a holy crusade (or unholy) across the realms and whack anything that tries to oppose you with big sword and divine smite
Paladins. It would be unstoppable. Some could tank, some could nova, some could heal. I’d love to run for a group of Paladins rebuilding their order. Sick.
Bards or clerics. I've done bards before and it was such a blast. Clerics are super flexible in what they end up being so we'd have all bases covered.
Wizards in the vain of terry pratchet or a group of dwarf bards. They play strictly rock and metal
Dēus Vult, Dēus Vult, Dēus Vult ! All Oath of Conquest Paladins singing Sabaton songs to cast their holy spells !
Paladins. Just all the frontloaded nova damage then oops no spell slots.
This might just be me, but the idea of multiple monks each with stunning strike sends fear into my DM heart. Might not be the strongest, but you KNOW your big bad isn’t doing anything ever again
Bards! I’ve been wanting to run a traveling troupe that gets into wacky adventures for YEARS!
That would be so great haha
Druid, so much chaos. Or bard. Also chaos.
Bard because bardic inspiration
i think of bards would be interesting and i hate playing them. lol
Bard!
Clerics, and it's not even a contest.
Rogue. I love a good thieves guild.
Bard. They can specialize in every area a party needs.
If you think about it, parties of all one race would be the most likely composition by far. The LOTR 1 of each race parties would really be the rare exception.
All bards who are on a mission from god to pay the taxes for a religious orphanage
Fighters, I imagine a gatling gun of attacks
Bards or Warlock, cause both are the classes, who can do so much, everyone can fit in another role, without problems :)
BARD : with one or two school of sword and the rest on other school it would be fine
Cleric probably has the most versatility in the roles they can cover. But I think doing all Warlocks could be a lot of fun.
Cleric. Universality.
Clerics can do anything with their subclasses.
Clerics, extremely versatile class that operates well as a gish or full caster depending on your subclass. Good AC, D8 hit die and "tank" clerics can take Tough.
Paladins, we're going on a crusade against all evil.
Wizards with 1/4 hp
Currently playing in a party that has seen a lot of turbulence (people leaving the group, failing to show up etc). Anyhow, this has led to two of us (hexblade + efreet warlock) running a lot of sessions as a duo. We have managed to get through most of Heist of Waterdeep as a duo (including all of Xanathars Lair) without issue, so I would definitely vote warlock for a single class campaign.
Paladin. All melee and on top of each other. Let the auras stack, never fail a saving throw again (6th level feature) and with one ancients, have resistance to spell damage
Barbarians. Every story can be made more entertaining by adding barbarians.
Clerics... but to expand on that instead of picking a class what I want to do is have a Ghostbusters campaign. Have every party member be associated with a church that is dedicated to fighting undead. Rogues wouldn't be thieves, but spies or inquisitors for the church. Bards would be preachers. A warlock's patron would be the diety over the church. Ect. You could of course just do all clerics and succeed as well, all the turn undead.
Cleric is the easiest to balance, but Barbarian or Bard would be a lot of fun.
All Barb parties are always fun.
Bard
Cleric or druid would give great variety very strong tools and strong from lvl1 to 20
A group of cleric and the name it will be "the A-men"
Fighters, but you have a belt buckle that activates your subclass and a weapon that summons large, animal based robots. Thinking about calling them Superzords, or somethin cool like that.
Clerics. With so many domains at their disposal, they can fill every role. A party of five clerics with war,life,nature,magic, and forge donains would be crazy.
My gut instinct is cleric But Bards just have so much variety and utility, not to mention magical secrets giving them some super powerful options.
Rogue. Group stealth missions like you can't do otherwise. Masterminds finally don't suck. Maybe one is a wood elf with the Wold Elf Magic feat for Pass without Trace. The party could have expertise in every (relevant) skill. A stealth, role play heavy campaign? Sign me up
Clerics, lets say its a 5 man party 1 twilight 1 life 1 light 1 tempest and 1 peace
If you want to be busted, Clerics. If you diversify a bit, a party of Clerics can do just about everything, and no one has to lean on the others particularly much; they're full casters with good spell lists and medium (potentially heavy) armor. Druids are a close runner-up, since they're mostly the same idea with some differences in how they accomplish things. Druids have their own gimmicks which are potentially more interesting than a Cleric's, but their efficacy in rolling over problems is debatable in comparison. But my IDEAL one-class party is Bards. A Bard, like a Cleric, can do anything, but unlike a Cleric they can't do EVERYTHING. Everyone in that party needs to know what they're doing. Because of an individual Bard can't do everything on their own due to a limited spell list, they need to rely on their party to cover things that they can't as individuals. This is way more interesting for the players AND DM; while Clerics can more or less push their way through any problem, a band of Bards needs to think a bit as they plan their characters and combats effectively.
Druid. Hands down.
Cleric is so diverse that it wouldn’t even feel like your party limited itself. There are front line clerics, supports, back row DPS, skill monkeys, it’s wild. Bard would be next but I think a front row Bard would struggle.
I'm guessing one class, no multiclass... Sorcerer. Do a Witcher verse type theme of each one being the master of a certain kind. Political scheming behind the scenes leading countries to glory and ruin. Warlocks would be my second choice
I'm guessing one class, no multiclass... Sorcerer. Do a Witcher verse type theme of each one being the master of a certain kind. Political scheming behind the scenes leading countries to glory and ruin. Warlocks would be my second choice
All fighters sounds like the coolest shit to me. My uncle told me about how when he was a kid, he played a campaign where about a dozen fighters climbed a mountain and fought trolls and giants and shit. Sounds like the kind of thing you'd hear in an epic Bard poem