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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Abe.ebA" data-source="post: 2883721" data-attributes="member: 32545">I've seen relatively few parties with the big four covered precisely.  Usually it's the healer that's missing and we muddle through with NPC hirelings, potions, and items.  My current game has far too much skill-monkey and far too little tank.  There's me (Rog3/Ftr3/Brb1 with high stats of 16Str, 16Int) as the 'tank', a Ranger/Rogue, a straight Rogue, a Bard, a Wizard (I think, could be Sorc), a Cleric/Rogue, and I think a Fighter/Rogue.  We generally manage an attendence of 4-5 per session and have a vast wealth of skills at our disposal but little else.  We realized one session that only two of us Don't have ranks in Decipher Script and that despite having at least a dozen languages known and the entire party knowing Draconic, nobody knew Goblin or Giant.  When being secretive we all just speak Draconic to one another.According to the DM our toughest encounters (read: the ones where everyone wound up unconscious at least once) were an even CR with our party level.  The Bard is still carrying a non-magical bronze machete from the jungle island where we started at level 3 as his primary weapon (and not because we're in a low magic campaign... he just can't fight).</blockquote>