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So, we had another exciting adventure in Crystaengland tonight! It was strong session overall, although a horrible fate befell our party: The gift shop was blocked by rubble. Dreams of a Wind Temple snowglobe and commemorative jerkin were dashed. Horrid!

Still, our combat went insanely well this time, even though my lucky numbers were 2 and 11. I kept rolling 2 on my attack rolls, and when I did hit, I kept rolling 11 damage. Seriously, this happened more than enough times to be suspicious. It was kind of crazy. But yeah, even though I blew through too many healing surges again because I love getting critical hit, we were still extremely successful in battle.

Also, I killed four guys! Sort of. See, one of the issues with Warlord is that, so often, I’m not actually dealing my own damage on my turn. Commander’s Strike, the reason I love the class, means that very often, it’s Spants or Essner attacking during my turn instead of me, especially now that Spaeth has the Intelligent Blademaster feat (and seriously, let us all take a moment to savor the humor in the fact that Spaeth’s character has almost superhuman intelligence) and can connect most of the time when I use it. So most of my damage is actually Spaeth’s damage. I claimed all the kills anyway tonight. Essner’s Ranger Showboating had to be put in its place somehow.
But yeah, not actually getting credit for damage done is an issue with the class. A very minor issue. I don’t especially care. But, you know, we’re being dicks, so I’m acting like it. Still, it does make me feel like I’m just standing there sometimes.

Issue two is the fact that I can’t give myself temporary hit points. Myrmidon Formation is so completely useful, and Bastion of Defense is also nice to help with the healing by giving everyone a buffer of temporary HP to burn through. However, as far as I know, I don’t get any health boost when I use them. So while everyone else is well-protected, I get little benefit from these healing moves, and am sitting there ready to be critted to death. Maybe I’m wrong with my rule reading on those? Who knows.
This too, I don’t have much problem with. Warlord is a pretty powerful class in a lot of respects, I don’t really mind it having some drawbacks. It’s not fun to be NOTHING but unstoppable, is it?

Anyway, Jonathan’s campaign continues to go really well, as far as I’m concerned. The impending, scary semester coming up might slow it down considerably, but, you know, hopefully we can keep it going.