As many of you I'm pretty stoked on getting my hands on S&S and the Class Decks. So, when the character sheets came out last week, I sat down with a d8, some post-its and the sheets on my phone, and started creating groups for my solo-play. I know I'm not going to be able to play them all, but it was mostly for fun.
First I just went through the S&S characters (all 12) and set up groups with the characters I wanted to play the most. I actually, after reading the sheets, want to play every character. But you know, a 12 character team is not possible, and I'm in the middle of a 6 character run now, and I really don't find it that enjoyable when I'm soloing. I decided to set up four groups with three characters in them. With the possibility to adjust them to four. My first group will be Lirianne - the Gunslinger, Alahazra - the Oracle and Damiel - the Alchemist. If I decide to up the character count to four I'm going to add Seltyiel - the Magus. I can probably post the other groups if they are of any interest for you.
Now, the fun part was setting up the Class Deck groups. I decided to go for four character groups. First I thought fully randomizing them, but avoiding same class in a group was the way I should do this. But when my first roll gave me Ezren, I changed my first plan somewhat. I decided that I would split up the seven iconics into the seven groups, and randomize the rest. So I did. But after rolling out the groups I went through everyone and noticed that the class spread wasn't that good. Three bards was all in a group with a Rogue, and three fighters was all in a group with a Ranger. Only one class that had a "perfect" spread, meaning totaling up every character from that class, that class was in groups with an exactly total of two from each of the other classes.
To clarify a bit. As the case was here the Clerics was spread out that the total of the four groups with a cleric had two of each other class in them. So I ended up using some time to figure out which character to move without to much hassle and after some moving of characters I ended up with a "perfect" spread. So now when I total up the groups that have one class, the total will include two of every other class.
So, having spent some time on that. I'm now looking forward to never having the time to get to play every group. But it was a fun exercise, and it made some quirky groups that probably aren't optimal at all, but will make the challenge greater seeing that reports from OP is that the scenarios are more difficult. I can probably post the groups here in a reply later if people are interested.
