Originally Posted by RagnarokCzD
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. laugh
I think you answered yourself here - if it was entirely hostile dungeon with enemies set to attack then it would be a different matter. Of course, majority of players will want to experience the story content, so it is not good if that results in worse combat experience.

I don’t remember that encounter being too challenging, except the constant danger of being one-shot to death with shove due to nearness of lava and death pits on almost all sides of the arena.