Party compositions

[Kalos Mer]

Most parties I've ever gamed with have one thing in common - there is a definitive shortage of divine spellcasters.  Arcanists up the wazoo, but rarely a cleric unless one was specifically 'commissioned.'

In my most legendary campaign (ran about five years, through high school and into the first year of college), there were about 26 different PCs who appeared at one point or another in the campaign - but of those, there was only a SINGLE cleric.  (Granted, two druids, but neither of them really focused on healing much.)  On the other hand, there were at least 8 wizards/sorcerers/psions.

[Darkxarth]

Well, the game I was DMing ended on Saturday, and we decided to start a new campaign (the original one was a one-shot) and we agreed on level 10.  So, two of my players and a new one went with relatively normal builds, a lv 10 Human Wizard, a lv 10 Elven Bard, and a lv 10 Dwarven Fighter.  The other two, however, decided on rather more unorthodox characters.  One of them is going to be a Half-Giant Half-Dragon Soulknife.  The other is playing a Minotaur Swashbuckler.  However, he's wearing Spiked Full-Plate Armor and carrying a Battering Ram and a Halfling-sized Heavy Repeating Crossbow.  It should be a rather interesting campaign.

[Captain Obvious]

So the party for my PBP here is shaping up to be the exact opposite of the parties i have IRL. Instead of all combat and one skilled, we have a rogue, a wizard and a cleric, and no combattant at all so far.

I wonder if perhaps the distinction is caused by the fact that my IRL campaigns mostly consist of people who just learnt the rules and combat characters are simpler, while the fine chaps on the boards here have been playing for longer and the bookeeping would be easier on the computer. possible? i think it could be a reasonable cause.

Also, i would like to take this opportunity to blatantly and unnashamedly pimp out my PBP. We could use another person or two.