Early in yours Dragon’s Dogma 2 As you play through, you create your character in the character creator. This is your partner in crime who will accompany you throughout the game and rise alongside you, but he will not be your only companion. At some point you will complete a party of four with other characters you meet on your journey. These can be those created by Capcom or those created by other players (assuming you’re playing online). You can recruit them either by speaking to them in the game world or by accessing cleavage stones found in various villages and towns.
While your original character levels up with you, everyone else you pick up stays at the same level. This incentivizes you to swap them out as you progress, but they cost RC, a different currency than the one you spend in shops. Before you leave the first town, make sure you recruit a full party to help you in battle. If possible, make sure your team fills all four initial combat roles (Fighter, Archer, Thief, Mage) so that skills are distributed among each other.