Grimrock

Do you think it'd be fun to do a four fighter run, specialize in all 4 weapon types, get everyone tanked, juggle members constantly around so everyone can hit? For max damage output this has to be pretty powerful...

Haha, not really fun... It was cool for doing the speedrun of the first level but this style of constant swapping play gets old fast.

I'll still have to try it sometime.

Just a roving band of barbarians!

Haha, yeah, brute force! I was going to spec the unarmed guy in evasion with dex maxed, give him the lurker set, the sword guy in valor, the axe in plate, mace in chitin. Again it's fun for a little while but not sure I want to do the whole run...

It would be a pain to keep switching them from the front to the back row.

not to mention that Exp is SLOT fixed, instead of CHARACTER fixed.
with this i mean:

character "a" is in slot 1, "b" in 2, "c" in 3 and "d" in 4. like this:
[a]
[c][d]
swapping "a" with "c" and "b" with "d" in order for "c" and "d" to hit the enemy, is still tagging slots 1 and 2 for full exp, leaving slots 3 and 4 untagged... so, when the mob dies, anyone in slot 3 and 4, no matter who, even if it's "a" and "b" who ended up in slots 3 and 4 after the mob died; only get 50% exp.

bottom line: a 4 fighter party, due to the current Exp system would be infuriating for those Exp munching guys out there always complaining of not getting enough Exp. A way around this, is to have the two fighters in slots 3 and 4 use spears or thrown weapons. Another way around is having the "chore" of taking turns on who ends in slots 1 and 2 for full exp.

Give the two back-row Fighters a stack of Thrown Weapons instead of a shield. Have them Throw to open every battle, then swap them up around as normal to keep everyone able to melee attack on cooldown. If you open with throw/throw/melee/melee and all 4 connect, everyone will get full XP.

Still sounds like more hassle than it's worth, needing to huck rocks and whatnot for every fight and having to click like a madman to attack and party-order-swap constantly.

Give them all Spears, basic shields and athletics. Skeleton formation.

That can actually be fun, I think I may try this.

The novelty wears off fast... Fistfighters were great for the speedrun achievement but I really couldn't imagine enjoying doing the whole game like that!