D&D General Single class party?

[Iry]

I've done it, and it works fine. Like any group, the success and fun lies in the players respecting each other (even with humorous shenanigans). That said, some classes are worse at it than others. Still do-able, just potentially less interesting on a mechanical level.

 

[Horwath]

In 5E all Bard party needn't be a band or troupe of entertainers either. They could be explorers, archeologists and all sorts of things. Such a party could handle almost any problem though skill overlap might be an issue.

there is no real skill overlap with many skills.

if they are doing stealth, all need it.
having all bards roll for Perception, Insight, Investigation, all "knowledge" skills, just adds to the chance of a very high roll and more info gathered.

You only need one specialist with various tools, Persuation, Intimidation, Deception(but all could have very good use out of it), Medicine or animal handling.

 

[akr71]

I've wanted to run a Heist/Thieves Guild one shot for a while, however, they don't all have to be rogues.

I think it would be a blast to have a series of one-shots where each one is an adventure with a different single class party.

 

[Ancalagon]

if they are doing stealth, all need it.

A note on that - this is different in 5e.

Back in the 3.X days, I was in a campaign with a large party: Bard, high dex fighter, high dex wizard, ranger-rogue, ranger fighter.... all decent or great at stealth.... and then me, the dex 8 heavy armor cleric of St-Cuthbert. So the only way the entire party could be stealthy was if my PC stayed behind, or I used silence and the cover of darkness. But even then, if anyone rolled terribly, the game was up. Group stealth was statistically very difficult.

In 5e, because of the stealth group check, that would be totally fine.