Why can't I tell these MFers to stay put without putting the game in pause?
Are you aware that you can drag a portrait out to unlink them and control individual characters or even group them up into different groups to control specific people at a time? Fairly certain there's even a tutorial telling you this.
You can also control Benryn. And heal him, or rally him, or anything you may need to better support him.
Alternatively, there's a door you can break that more immediately takes you out of the fire so you don't have to run through the house, which kinda directly takes away your "one solution" argument.
I agree with the water, though.
