How do you create your in-game party in RPGs with custom party members?

[MondayAtTheBeach]

I'm a really big fan of Etrian Odyssey and i have recently been playing through Dragon Quest III, both games that make you build a party of several characters to use in the game, and i've been wondering how do you guys form and name the party members? I usually either base them on my friends and try to think of what classes they would be if they were video game characters or i do the same thing but with fictional characters i like. How do you do it?

 

[Fietto!]

When it comes to Etrian. I just name em after Food. Examples like Pomodoro & Farina.
(I picked Option 3 anyway, as I imagined up lore. Hell, that’s what I love about these games. You use your imagination when story is absent, it’s valuable freedom.)

 

[HoyeBoye]

I try to guess how the story will go and assign the characters my friend’s names based on my predictions. After they are named, I usually run out the game with who I’d rather hang out with than who works strategically.
TBH, I’m not that good at RPGs.

 

[SamanthaSamantha's icon]

Same concept as with my virtual sports teams: book characters!

You'd think I wouldn't have enough favorites to fill an entire roster with... but I do love my books xD

 

[Alkider]

Ok for a quick recommended list for this kind of thing, EO like what was already talked about, Disgaea with it's custom characters, Stranger of Sword City, and recently The Dark Spire (and by extension Wizardry)
With any game I get to rename a character it depends on what Impression I get from them before getting the option to. For characters that might as well be completely blank slates, I like to make their names Puns based on their roles or class. Sometimes If it's something like EO, I end up naming them after other game characters or even (not so) original characters that I ended up making for TTRPG campaigns or randomly when I was bored at one point or another XD