After hitting the 'Reorder' button, you can either hit the 'Use Roster Order' button, which automatically orders your characters as they appear in the roster, or you can manually select which character will come first, then second, and so on.

What follows are some points to consider when ordering your party:

• When the party encounters monsters, only the first three will be able to fight hand-to-hand with the monsters. The last three will not be able to fight directly with monsters unless they are in possession of long range weapons. Similarly, the monsters will only be able to attack the first three characters hand-to-hand. There is no such restriction when casting attack spells, however.

• The vision statistic will have more of an impact on the effectiveness of actions performed by members closer to the rear of the party. It matters less to those toward the front.

Note that paralyzed and dead characters must appear at the end of the party list; if you attempt to reorder the party so that they appear first, the characters will be resorted so they're back at the end. It only makes sense, after all, that the conscious characters drag the unconscious characters behind them, instead of pushing them in front.