Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-99.192.74.126-20161015101029/@comment-27713488-20161022022235

Simon can fight the Poison Wasps, just not the Blur Hornets.

As for the docks, you can have two accessories that protect from a bunch of effects at that point, and a few more that protect from most - and that's without spending money on gear. It's meant to be a gear check and drain some of your restoratives.

Altina is the only optional character, so if anyone should be underpowered it's her. But enemies only really start getting MDF around Ardford, so with sexual equipment boosting her stats high, Altina's single-target attacks are comparable to Robin's and she heals for a bit more.

I agree with you about RPGs that won't let you swap out a character, but as such RPGs go, I have not found TLS to be very galling. Simon is sometimes not who I'd have chosen, but I can usually find something for him to do. Lots of things are vulnerable to at least one thing Unified Strike applies, even if they have a chance to resist.