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UnholyMudcrab posted...

You don't need to ignore the dialogue. You can have your conversation with Viconia and then just spend the first turn retreating into the hallway behind you to get the enemies to cluster and funnel toward you. It's what I've done every single time I've done the fight.

And funneling the enemies into the hallway isn't a cheese strategy any more than, say, pushing enemies into the lava during the fight with Nere in the Grymforge is cheese. It's just using the terrain to your advantage.

It's cheesy because this would not work against a real DM, and only works because the enemy is so stupid.

If someone drops a huge ass aoe hazard in a narrow point, people usually don't run straight into it.

It's one thing outsmarting someone. It's also a good thing to make use of the terrain of course.
But when it's about abusing braindead enemy behavior, it feels much less rewarding.

If the enemy would do the same tactic, people would not even be able to complain, because the answer is obviously "duh, don't run into it".