Originally Posted By: oh, mother
You're limited to four characters, yeah. Of course six is always better than four, but four is plenty enough to make it through the games with little difficulty, because, as part of the rewrite, the games were rebalanced for four PCs. You can still get one of each of the major character types (fighter, rogue, mage, priest), and there is opportunity enough to have dual-skilled characters, so you never really miss the extra two characters.
Thanks for the information; that's what I thought.
By the way, has Simulacrum been removed or nerfed in the later games? That was the most overpowered summoning spell, IMO.