D&D 5E Build an anti-stereotypical team of 4.

[Ancalagon]

* Fighter --> Mountain dwarf wizard, 4th level feat heavy armour proficiency +1 str
* Rogue --> variant human warlock with skilled feat and devils sight invocation.
* wizard--> magic domain cleric from UA
* cleric.--> spell less ranger from UA with healer feat.

Re the "cleric" idea, I had built a dwarven "paladin" who was a deluded ranger... his favourite enemy was undead of course.

To the OP: are we missing the mark here?

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[Mercule]

Well, if you drop the Paladin from my Curse of Strahd game, you get:

Fighter --> Moon Druid
Cleric/Wizard --> Favored Soul
Rogue --> Ranger with thieves' tools
Fighter/Rogue --> Monk

The Paladin helps to pad out the Cleric and Fighter roles, but really, the fifth character just does what a fifth character always does: lets them handle tougher encounters.

If I was building from the ground up to be a bit... slanted, I might go with something like this:

Blade Warlock (fighter)
Lore Bard (cleric, partial rogue)
Land Druid (wizard, fill out cleric)
Shadow Monk (rogue, fill out fighter)

Or:

Open Hand Monk (fighter + rogue)
Deep Ranger (rogue + fighter)
Lore Bard (cleric + rogue)
Favored Soul w/ criminal background (wizard + cleric + rogue)

 

[jaelis]

4 bards would work and be kind of awesome. But with a five-bard party you could have a literal 5-man band!

Leader -> social-focus valor bard (voice and horn)
Lancer -> glamour or whispers bard (flute)
Smart Guy -> control-focused lore bard (shawm or pipes)
Big Guy -> combat-focused valor bard (drum)
Chick -> healing-focused lore bard (dulcimer)

 

[Gardens & Goblins]

Currently we have:

Cleric of Healing as the tough, tanky guy.
A ranger dual wielding as the damage guy.
A rogue that's focusing on skills and gadgets as the support guy.
And a mystic, Nomad, focusing on control and mobility as the control guy.

I'm not sure what makes a stereotypical party, truth be told. Our last group had a wizard, bladesinger - a sorcerer, focusing on fire, a warlock, GOO and a lore bard.

 

[Artturi Laitakari]

Currently I have made characters so far:
Front row has Muscular Dragon lineage Sorcerer with a great sword and aversion to shirts.
Tank next to him is a mountaind dwarf with full plate, a wizard.
On the back row I plan to put a female elf archer, champion fighter with some rogue like feats and skills,
and the last member could be ranger or monk. No idea yet, but she has to heal.

 

[Artturi Laitakari]

so perhaps land druid could be the cleric.

 

[Artturi Laitakari]

Thanx for all the input.
I made a super flexible team.
Barbarian type sorcerer, can dupe and pick a lock, str 16.
Dwarfen defender feeling wizard, platemail, ac 20 and really strong.
Flexible Druid that is a bit normal druid, but is a good at finding traps.
And lastly a swashbuckler Archer, fighter lady, also a bit rogue, lockpicker criminal.

This team can easily lose 1-2 players and still be well rounded.
(level 8)

 

[LarryD]

My current party - still at 1st level as we had first session last weekend - Barbarian with Pirate background; Rogue (Charlatan); Mystic (Far Traveler); Wild Magic Sorcerer. I'm running the Mystic with heal ability, & wields 2 shortswords for 2 weapon fighting.

 

[Yunru]

I prefer flexibility over brute strength, guile over firepower.

I would love to see a team of 4 heroes done against the stereotypes.

Basic roles
* Fighter --> STR 15 variant human sorcerer with weapon's proficiency feat and Greatsword. I think this works.
* Rogue --> some sorf of bard
* wizard
* cleric.

Any ideas how to get characters that actually fill the role?

A Valor Bard for the Fighter.
A Lore Bard for the Rogue.
A Lore Bard for the Wizard.
A Lore Bard for the Cleric.

Did I mention I like Bards?

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

4 bards would work and be kind of awesome. But with a five-bard party you could have a literal 5-man band!

Leader -> social-focus valor bard (voice and horn)
Lancer -> glamour or whispers bard (flute)
Smart Guy -> control-focused lore bard (shawm or pipes)
Big Guy -> combat-focused valor bard (drum)
Chick -> healing-focused lore bard (dulcimer)

Beat me to it! I was going to suggest a "motley crew" of 4 Bards...