Shouldn't overdramatise it however. The companions are reasonably well with avoiding bad surfaces or aoe, with the exception of Cloud of Daggers. The player should know this at level 6, when the Nere fight is on the table. BTW from the about 8 Nere fights I had, only in one the duergar of Brithvar turned hostile, for unknown reasons. In one fight I turned them and in one other the gnomes hostile by stupid use of aoe.
