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My daughter and I are about to start a Wrath of the Righteous campaign. I let her pick her character first, and she selected Adowyn.
Ordinarily, I use three criteria when selecting my character:
1) A character that has some sort of group helping ability,
2) A character that ensures that every boon can be potentially useful,
3) A character that will not usually overshadow my daughter's character (I like being her sidekick).
In the past, I have used Lem (RotRL) and Oloch (S&S). The WotR cast of characters makes this difficult. Right now, I am liking both Balazar and Crowe. I think Crowe is the only character that satisfies criteria 2 in the game, but all of his powers only help himself.
Am I missing something? For those with more experience than me, which character would you recommend?
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For number 2, are you are basically trying to cover each of these 3 boons categories:
1. Melee weapons
2. Ranged weapons
3. Arcane spells
4. Divine spells
Having 2 characters cover all 4 of those areas is hard. And you are right that if you limit your choices to characters that came in WotR, Crowe is your only chance to cover that. You could always choose to look at characters from other sources. The Magus Class Deck might be of help, though none of the characters in there start off with powers that help other characters, a few of their roles do.
I think I'd honestly recommend not worrying about criteria 2 and play Balazar. Due to his powers, you'll be taking a bunch of spells that aren't combat spells. That means you are free to prioritize spells that will help your daughter. Aodwyn is pretty awesome, so I don't think you'll need to worry about #3 at all.
When I ran through WotR with 2 characters, I used Seoni and Adowyn. The combo worked pretty well. Balazar is also an excellent choice, so if you like him then I’d recommend giving him a go.
Balazar is really useful and is able to provide very strong support. On the whole, I agree with Skizzerz and Hawkmoon. However, I'll provide a very slight dissenting opinion on one aspect, or rather a warning.
3) A character that will not usually overshadow my daughter's character (I like being her sidekick).
Adowyn is widely regarded as one of the strongest characters in Wrath of the Righteous. But that's mostly because she is so exceptionally capable of examining decks to give the team valuable information, as well as dodging problem encounters, as well as generally being very versatile whilst also a strong Ranged combatant.
The thing is that Adowyn is kind of a 'support' character in playstyle, to a point, so intentionally trying not to 'overshadow' her turns might be a little awkward. Balazar will have more impressive - at least visually impressive - combat checks and turns some of the time, in particular since he can bring to bear huge numbers of dice and static bonuses whenever he gets into combat in later Adventures. Your previous characters (Lem and Oloch) are pretty solid supportive characters that can happily expend resources to make someone else function way better, and Balazar's not quite so focused on that. He certainly is able to provide support, but he's going to have some very explosive turns later in the adventure path, which may or may not bother you based on requirement #3.
Of course, you can just stack him with spells and blessings to help Adowyn out, and he'll still be able to work great. In my opinion, he is the most complex character to use in Wrath of the Righteous, so you may be turned off if you don't like tracking various different powers and sources of static bonuses and dice.
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I'd lean off course a little bit and just suggest Seelah. Go Str/Cha while she goes Dex/Wis-ish, you're heavy armor and melee, she's light armor and ranged, animal allies vs diplomacy allies, etc. And Seelah provides great buffs, especially as a Mythic Marshal.
Keith makes a compelling point. Seelah also serves as a nice support character, as well as being verstaile, straightforward and thematic, and well-placed to use various Loot cards that Adowyn can't.
I'd lean off course a little bit and just suggest Seelah. Go Str/Cha while she goes Dex/Wis-ish, you're heavy armor and melee, she's light armor and ranged, animal allies vs diplomacy allies, etc. And Seelah provides great buffs, especially as a Mythic Marshal.
+1 on this recommendation