Just wondering how many characters you prefer to have in your party in these games, and how many are regular characters (those you create) versus special characters (recruited monsters and summons).

For me? In BT3, my favorite party size is 0. How about you?

I haven't played BT in quite a while (BT2 even longer ago, and BT3 I completed even longer ago still), but I always like to max out my parties so I fill out all available PC spots with characters, and then always try to have monsters in the other slot(s) too. Actually it never even occurred to me to try anything different...