Thinking about doing another run with a single class party. My first thought is druid, because between the subclasses you can get a good mix of healing, AoE, and tanking. What other classes might work? Is there enough gear to go around for this to work?
Clerics.
Call your group the A-Men.
Bard
Travelling band
I feel like I don’t know how to play a bard well in combat. In my original playthrough, all he did in combat was use arrows to knock people off things.
I did college of swords with dual hand crossbows and short swords. I also took 3 levels of rogue to get the second bonus action (for 4 attacks per round). Spell slots mostly went to utility stuff.
Valor is your tank. Strap on a shield and take some defensive spells.
Lore is your main caster. Mostly debuffs but you can pick up some variety with magical secrets.
For a full bard party, I’d probably take 2 lore bards for the spell variety and either take a dip into warlock or sorcerer or pick up Spell Sniper with at least one of them for access to better cantrips.
Doubling up on swords is also a good option since your bardic inspiration recharges on short rest (starting at level 5) and you’ll have 6 short rests per day thanks to Song of Rest.
Cleric has a domain for basically everything in it, you can run a whole party of them and not suffer from the lack of any role.
Nice! I haven’t explored the cleric much in the game. I changed Shadowheart to paladin.
Clerics are the original All-Class Party. You can build a cleric to do damn near literally any role using different subclasses and spells. Heavy armor tank, heals, sneaky sneaky lockpicks, nearly naked full caster, you name it, there’s a cleric of it. Get four of them in a room, call 'em the A-Men and get ready to break any semblance of balance over your knee. The Absolute is having a panic attack right now and doesn’t even know why.
I think the game is forgiving enough that you don’t have to limit yourself in your choice. There are enough healing potions that you don’t necessarily need a dedicated healer.
So just do what your heart tells you.
This may not be the most optimal but I think a party of rangers, each with their own color dye would be fun. This way you could be the “power rangers”
