What is wrong with positioning in advance? O_o I mean sure in DnD session usualy everyone wants to be in middle of the action, since nobody wants to miss opourtunity to steal their few seconds on spotlight ... and you can hardly intervene with dialogue, when you are hiding in shadows 20m away preparing your poisoned arrow.
But in general ... Positioning and preparing for bad things that can (and will, since we are going to start them) happen seems totally in line with story, and roleplay to me. O_o
I still dont understand why cant we change Race for our hirelings. Lets us play Githyanki as racist as they trully are!