Session  5 : Well we had 2 no shows . The assassin and the gobo ranger . Trap and strikers where gone this session . This was a challenge encounter wise since we had no means to deal with traps and anymore then 3 monsters was a challenge .

Claw swarms I hate them . They took me down hot and fast had to hp boost first turn of combat then the dm realized they where going to kick our asses since we had no strikers . We also have no controller so i have to act as meat sheild control .

Archer boy did good for the most part . the warlord hybrid on his 4 character since we started seems to know the game thats good hes a lurker player so will have to see . I seem to throw some kinks in the dms plans since im Conservative on the using things placed in the areas we are dealing with stuff . The DM put oil ,grease , lard stores in the area where in right now . I saw the light bulb go off on the lurker at the same time as me when he read the stores off to the group . I figure we can blind fight the basilisk . But no way we can pull it off short handed . But i got an idea for that again . Maybe we can lure the basilisk to the bone room along with some of the tasty bits from the other rooms we havnt cleared .

Im of the opinion that fighters are worthless in 4th ed . The serve no combat purpose that i can see . Without the flexibilty of the 3rd ed skills its tough to make a fighter work for anything other then a meat sheild . Which is a waste since they gave rouges and rangers so much stiker powers . Strange that the combat trained guy only dishes out massive damage once or twice a encounter . In the end im not sure i like 4th ed . Ill play it because thats the options right now but if another group opens up that plays 3rd or pathfinders i think ill try that .

I dont really like the encounters feel to the game now .