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<blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 7533457" data-attributes="member: 20564">[MENTION=59082]Mercurius[/MENTION] had an thought provoking post about going through a published dungeon crawl with a small party, possibly a two person group.<a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?655479-quot-Solo-crawling-quot-Dungeon-of-the-Mad-Mage" target="_blank">http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?655479-quot-Solo-crawling-quot-Dungeon-of-the-Mad-Mage</a>That got me to thinking.&nbsp; We often discuss optimization of a single character, but how about a pair of characters (only!) that need to complement each other.Say we needed to handle:<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">RP and social skills</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Knowledge skills</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Exploration and discovery</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Combat where usually the foes have a lot more actions then us</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Healing/recovery between challengesFind/remove traps, open locks, find hidden things</li>
</ul>(Assume standard type adventures, not the DM tailoring specifically to two characters - though that does mean the might advance faster so be a bit in level above where a 4-5 character party would be.)Can you suggest character pairs that will work at (around) 6th, 12th and 16th, providing a high degree of synergy as well as covering the needed tasks?&nbsp; It's okay if they are a bit weak on one or two if they carry their weight well in the others.(Let's keep it to published Wizards books only - no UA, 3rd party, or homebrew.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Blue, post: 7533457, member: 20564"] [MENTION=59082]Mercurius[/MENTION] had an thought provoking post about going through a published dungeon crawl with a small party, possibly a two person group. [url]http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?655479-quot-Solo-crawling-quot-Dungeon-of-the-Mad-Mage[/url] That got me to thinking. We often discuss optimization of a single character, but how about a pair of characters (only!) that need to complement each other. Say we needed to handle: [LIST] [*]RP and social skills [*]Knowledge skills [*]Exploration and discovery [*]Combat where usually the foes have a lot more actions then us [*]Healing/recovery between challengesFind/remove traps, open locks, find hidden things [/LIST] (Assume standard type adventures, not the DM tailoring specifically to two characters - though that does mean the might advance faster so be a bit in level above where a 4-5 character party would be.) Can you suggest character pairs that will work at (around) 6th, 12th and 16th, providing a high degree of synergy as well as covering the needed tasks? It's okay if they are a bit weak on one or two if they carry their weight well in the others. (Let's keep it to published Wizards books only - no UA, 3rd party, or homebrew.) [/QUOTE]

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