Number of characters, How many is too many Options

[DMBF]

Hey guys.

I have about 18 characters in my game. You can swap between them pretty much whenever you want. What's people's opinions on party sizes? Is there ever such a thing as too many characters?

[magusgarkan]

Back when I first started, I had 10 characters total. The idea was similar to other rpgs I've played, in that you'd cycle through them until you ended up with a fixed group of 4 that would be your group for the last third of the game.

Now that I've gotten VX, the party limit doesn't seem to be there anymore, but I'm still sticking with my current roster. The only sad part is that I've had to drop one of the tertiary characters from my game due to the changes in sprites and graphics style.