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.
Nice to know about linking. That answers ONE of several complaints, but thanks for that. Benryn follows like a lost puppy, anyway. Pause wasn't initiating as party members get hit by environmental effects, so no time for anything but running. Healing while on fire with more fire coming is counter-productive.
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.
No it doesn't. As I said: Bugged. I reloaded and encountered the same bug. I saw what was suppose to happen. So I broke down the door before freeing him and it didn't work. Benryn didn't initiate the dialogue and stood in the opposite doorway once freed, just out of reach of the flames and would not be moved. Good for you if it worked as intended.
