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Sep. 11th, 2014 11:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckLast night, we had a couple of people over to play Fortune and Glory. It was our first time playing it, and there were plenty of rules hiccups as we tried to figure out what we were supposed to do. We were playing cooperatively, and the rules for that aren't laid out as clearly as the rules for competitive play. We didn't get through anything near a full game before 10 p.m. arrived, but we were making progress.
We learned early that fighting the villains for artifacts directly is a bad idea. The named villains are tough. They're less flexible than the player characters, but they're harder to knock out, too. The four of us collected three artifacts while the villains collected two.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
booniverse and I struggled for several turns to get one artifact. We expected it to be easier to do with the two of us cooperating, but we kept rolling badly.
Scott did say that he thinks we made a mistake in focusing immediately on retrieving artifacts. He thinks we should have traveled around a bit in an effort to collect allies and equipment so that we'd have more leverage when we did go after artifacts. I'm not so sure. The villains advance rapidly, and the player characters can't face them directly. It would be interesting to play a few times and try out different strategies. There are rules for solo play, so Scott thinks he may play it that way to get a handle on the rules.
This morning, I did my first stint volunteering in the school library. There was a fair amount of shelving to do. After that, the librarian had me shift books (the previous librarian weeded ruthlessly. There are things missing, though, that I'm surprised by-- I wonder where all the Diary of a Wimpy Kid books went, for example, and there's almost nothing left of the graphic novels). Then she had me make shelf labels. That was kind of finicky because I had to trim the label, glue it to construction paper, and trim that.
I stayed three hours. The librarian said she likes to do check out for the first few weeks because she needs to learn the kids' names. She also has another parent for the first class, a third grade class in which I know about half the kids from helping with their second grade class last year. There's just me for the second class, though, and that's first graders. There's no third class, so I may not end up staying three hours every week. It will depend on what she has for me to do. I'll likely finish the shelving during the first class while the other mother does check in and check out (unless for some reason she prefers shelving to circulation. I wouldn't because circulation is the best opportunity to get to know the kids in her child's class).
They're still insisting that Cordelia exit the building from the back. I think they plan to do that all year. I don't like it because, as the weather gets worse, that's more time she's out in the elements. I also don't expect, once it snows, that they'll clear a path all the way around the school. If they don't and still expect the kids who cross the street in front of the school to get home to go out the back, I will raise holy hell. There's a crossing guard there, morning and afternoon. Cordelia's capable of crossing without her help, at least in the afternoon (traffic is heavy in the mornings because that street is a major route into town from the highway. Ann Arbor law says that, if someone's waiting in the crosswalk, drivers are obliged to stop to allow them to cross, but very few drivers ever do it unless the crossing guard is there with her stop sign), but I like the insurance. There is a way Cordelia could get to a crosswalk for Barton that has a stoplight, but it's at least five minutes out of her way and is even worse for her friends who live right across from the school.
We learned early that fighting the villains for artifacts directly is a bad idea. The named villains are tough. They're less flexible than the player characters, but they're harder to knock out, too. The four of us collected three artifacts while the villains collected two.
booniverse and I struggled for several turns to get one artifact. We expected it to be easier to do with the two of us cooperating, but we kept rolling badly.Scott did say that he thinks we made a mistake in focusing immediately on retrieving artifacts. He thinks we should have traveled around a bit in an effort to collect allies and equipment so that we'd have more leverage when we did go after artifacts. I'm not so sure. The villains advance rapidly, and the player characters can't face them directly. It would be interesting to play a few times and try out different strategies. There are rules for solo play, so Scott thinks he may play it that way to get a handle on the rules.
This morning, I did my first stint volunteering in the school library. There was a fair amount of shelving to do. After that, the librarian had me shift books (the previous librarian weeded ruthlessly. There are things missing, though, that I'm surprised by-- I wonder where all the Diary of a Wimpy Kid books went, for example, and there's almost nothing left of the graphic novels). Then she had me make shelf labels. That was kind of finicky because I had to trim the label, glue it to construction paper, and trim that.
I stayed three hours. The librarian said she likes to do check out for the first few weeks because she needs to learn the kids' names. She also has another parent for the first class, a third grade class in which I know about half the kids from helping with their second grade class last year. There's just me for the second class, though, and that's first graders. There's no third class, so I may not end up staying three hours every week. It will depend on what she has for me to do. I'll likely finish the shelving during the first class while the other mother does check in and check out (unless for some reason she prefers shelving to circulation. I wouldn't because circulation is the best opportunity to get to know the kids in her child's class).
They're still insisting that Cordelia exit the building from the back. I think they plan to do that all year. I don't like it because, as the weather gets worse, that's more time she's out in the elements. I also don't expect, once it snows, that they'll clear a path all the way around the school. If they don't and still expect the kids who cross the street in front of the school to get home to go out the back, I will raise holy hell. There's a crossing guard there, morning and afternoon. Cordelia's capable of crossing without her help, at least in the afternoon (traffic is heavy in the mornings because that street is a major route into town from the highway. Ann Arbor law says that, if someone's waiting in the crosswalk, drivers are obliged to stop to allow them to cross, but very few drivers ever do it unless the crossing guard is there with her stop sign), but I like the insurance. There is a way Cordelia could get to a crosswalk for Barton that has a stoplight, but it's at least five minutes out of her way and is even worse for her friends who live right across from the school.
