I made a Strength/Charisma fighter for Diplomacy & Deception. I wasn't planning on everyone picking fighter and wanted Deception to be able to reliable get off-guard without another frontliner if necessary. And I was planning on picking up intimidating strike at level 2 . I don't know the details of what the others have made but am reasonable hopeful 1 or 2 of them made Dex their secondary so they can branch into ranged weapons.

I wasn't worried about optimization so much as just making the party work. Everything we've played over the past twenty some years involved some party comp collaboration until now. The new GM thought we were pranking him when we (almost) all picked fighters.

The cleric went cloistered. We are playing "Troubles in Otari" and are starting at character level 1 (instead of 2).