Raising Limit of Amount of NPCs in Party

This isn't a bug, but rather a feature request. I noticed that the minimum number of PCs in the party can't go below 3 whereas the max number of NPCs in the party can't go above 5. Is it possible to lower this value to 1 PC and have 7 NPCs? I prefer to play with only 1 PC and to have more than 5 NPCs would, at least for me, increase the immersion factor of the storyline. I did notice that you can change this in the TFE-X.ini file which I did and it worked fine in game, but does this create problems later on? Also, I want to note that when I reported my 2 other bugs, I had the PCs set at 3 and NPCs at 5, so this change wasn't in effect when I was testing the level cap or disabling the intro movies.

 

Well, on the old Frontend, you can edit the TempleFrontend Configuration file. But there are two things to be aware of:
1) If your single PC gets knocked unconscious, game over. Your NPCs cannot help him. Not sure about effects like sleep, etc....
2) You will probably not be able to recruit Mother Screng & Hruda unless you have no other NPCs (except Otis) at that time.

 

Good points from both of you guys. Thanks. Even though it's unsupported, I'm going to give it a whirl anyway and see if I can beat the game with 1 PC and 7 NPCs just to see if it can be done. Thanks for your help guys.

 

With the original pc patch counter you could play 1/7, but it was so unstable and so many "strange" things happened. Never could get very far into the game without something happening. So as Ted warned, don't be surprized if if doesn't work out well

 

I found 2 PCs to be very stable. I considered that my PC paladin had a dumbass half-orc monk lackey - both devoted to St.Cuthbert. Ok, I confess, I had to use the console to switch the religion around.

 

One can make a legal Cuthbert Paladin, but he/she will have to start out as a LG fighter and switch to Paly later and of course never go back.

 

How do the deities affect the Paladins?