Most useless party?

[smaug chow]

So what IS the most useless party of 5 NPC's? What's the worst collection of underpowered, malnourished, uninspired, inept misfits on the Sword Coast? 'Cuz I wanna play 'em!

I just posted to the "Your Party" thread with this one, and it should be pretty weak but thats not why I chose them. I wanted to use all the dudes I had not used before, so I want:

Eldoth
Skie
Faldorn
Tiax
Quayle

Now this is a poor group - heavy on thieves, weak on magic and melee - but is it the worst? Here is my vote for the worst sellection of sidekicks.

Eldoth
Quayle
Tiax
(The other bard - can't recall his name)
Faldorn

There - you have 3 poor mages, 4 poor thieves, 1 full druid and a poor cleric, and no fighters. The only competition I see to this group might be:

Imoen (not dualed)
Safana
Alora
Skie
ummm...another thief? Eldoth?

Any thoughts?

[Magior]

Quayle is basicly the same as his stepdaughter in BG2. With worse stats and less cheesy spell arsenal, of course, BUT is a very able character and not nearly as bad as Tiax, for example.

IMO, your 2nd party seems far too flexible to be completely useless. I'd vote for the 3rd party, taking Tiax as the 5th character and an untalented thief PC. No mages (=no wands), no fighters, as bad a cleric you can find

[Xyx]

Shouldn't the PC slot be "free"? I mean, if you're going to put limitations on that one, you might as well require minimum stats and Hit Point rolls, not learning spells, and placing all your proficiencies in clubs or something.