Larian Studios Forums Divinity: Original Sin 2 Divinity - Original Sin 2 - Help/Tips/Tricks Positioning characters before a fight

Normaly if the not linked characters are in range of the fight they all get into but on their position. If they are not in range the fight begins without them while they can do what they want. They don't get penalties or anything. The only problem is if there are enemies with higher initiative they act first and can attack your in fight mates while you are focused at your not in fight chars. You can't stop the game while this is happening so it is a bit confusing. You can always start a fight with one character and the others in a safe distance but all enemies will focus the one character in fight.

If the characters are linked in reach they will always position themselfs like the system told them to do (you can't do anything against that I think)