Worst Possible Party Combinations

[Kafkonia]

It seems like a joke, but just about every "worst-party" scenario I could imagine somehow involves a bard. And I don't even think bards are weak. There is just something about the name "bard" that sounds weak.

I think it's because the Bard is pretty much the archetypal 5th party member. S/he can do a lot of things -- cast arcane spells, heal, fight, and use skills -- but none of them as well as a specialist.

 

[Acid_crash]

a beguiler, a shugenja, a spell thief, a bard would be horrible in a dungeon crawl

 

[Kafkonia]

I can't believe an Odd Couple reference had to be explained. Very very sad.

Lesse...

Felix would be a disturbingly androgynous and finicky elf archivist of the Silver Flame.

Oscar would be a slovenly half-orc rogue/inqusitive who sidelined for the Korranberg Chronicle.

I'd suggest Oscar as a dwarf, personally.

 

[drothgery]

Hmm... inherently unstable (but still possible; including a must-be-non-good and a paladin wouldn't be legal) party here:

warlock, paladin, archivist, and ninja

Just sub-optimal classes...
wu jen, hexblade, healer, and lurk