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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SSquirrel" data-source="post: 5673546" data-attributes="member: 5202">It may not be a requirement, but if I was in a 5 or 6 man group and no one was going to be playing a leader, I'd definitely switch characters and run one.  They may not be completely needed, but they smooth things out drastically.  We have a very well balanced group for one game and we've talked about starting a side game for 2 couples, since we end up hanging out a lot.  Our friend decided she wanted to play a Brutal Rogue and my Wife opted for a Sorcerer.  Since I'm the only other player, I decided I'd try and cover both the tanking and healing by running a Paladin.  He isn't a full on leader, but he's a Charismadin w/good Wisdom, so he'll have several LoH a day.  In our main group, I actually ended up making most of the original characters for people and I switched from playing a Bard to a Rogue.  After I did that I made a Wizard who used lots of illusion and psychic spells as well as a psychic weapon and suddenly I had a Wizard who could throw out large aoes that would debuff the enemy w/immobilize and such, as well as -2 to next attack from Psychic Lock.  That character helped make up for all the debuffing we would be losing by me not running that Bard.  We only have 1 leader in our 6 man group, but she's running a Cleric, so her healing is pretty nuts even w/o a heavy focus on it in her feats.  Amusingly enough, we lost that Wizard pretty early in the game due to scheduling and have recently gained both a Psion and a Bard, so our new party mix should be pretty interesting.</blockquote>

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