It's amazing how much you can learn, tactics wise, when you have a massive handicap. Learning to work around my deficiencies was a fun challenge.

Yup. Alarn definitely looked like he was having way more fun than any of the "power" optimized characters were. I was disappointed when you and Jhaelryna ended up butting heads, though I think it made sense for both characters and both sides made the right calls.

Nepenthe has pointed this sort of thing out to me a lot with recent Scions, given our eclectic collection of Lich Without Undead, Invoker Wearing Stylish Herald Gear, Potion Warrior Guy, etc. Admittedly, Alarn had them all out-ecletic-ed, but all of them look/looked fun (*), and you're precisely right about it being a good way to learn unusual strategies that you might never try on an "optimal" character.

As for flurry, any one-sword flurry is 3 rounds.

(*) I assume the players thought so as well, since they're all pretty long-lived.

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