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| PBS Learning Media Storyboard for new school year |
Friday and gave Chase a test and storyboard assignment this morning to review what we've learned so far. I made my own storyboard to highlight a few of the things. Just a good way to keep track of what we've learned. Don't see anyway to embed these. It is similar to the Glogster posters, though those you can embed. However, Glogs take a long time to load, I think it is all flash or something. This could also be used as a presentation for projects. Though Windows 10 has a built in app that might work better. It's called Sway. I'll have to play around with it a bit to see how useful it would be. The storyboards are simple, and that can be good enough.
In the afternoon, we did our first dungeon crawl. Only made it to the first room of the Old Aqueducts, though. We had a random encounter with 4 tiny scorpions and they kicked our butts because we couldn't hit them! Hahaha. Well, after Kai (Chase's fighter) fell into a floor trap that nearly killed him, we took on a huuuuge centipede and destroyed it. Then there was lewts. Emberlyn (my pirate/rogue) found some gold and split it (evenly, of course! ---- not!) and Kai found a glowing gem and a cool sword. Our NPC, Asila, a second year Healer student, found a small silver ring.
That is as far as we got, had to have them take a short rest... Guess we're combining 3.5 and 5 rules to try to simplify things. Rather than make us spend the night in the dungeon when it should really take one night only. We're exploring a tunnel under our school and they would probably have to send a search party after us if us first years didn't make it back. But hey, we did sign the waivers that adventurer's school could mean our deaths!
Chase has no problem solving math problems on the fly as he rolls his saves and attacks. He did well with the roleplay part, with a character afraid of bugs and our first encounters.... My character flaw has a fear of ghosts. Kevin wanted us each to have a flaw to make our characters more interesting and have fun to roleplay with.
For our table, we bought a shower curtain as it is cheaper than a large vinyl mat, cut it to size and we're using overhead markers to write on it. He made a dungeon map to go under it and drew on all the features and added tokens as encounters.
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| The DM notes and encounter tokens! |
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| New miniatures for our characters from Reaper Mini. |
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| The full table view of the dungeon. |
Oops, just remembered, forgot to do school pictures today. Well, maybe we'll take them on Monday. We were still discussing what to do with them. Last year it was Minecraft themed, where I used a green screen to superimpose him into a Minecraft scene he composed. I think he wants to do that again, but after looking at the portrait of Benjamin Franklin with his favorite things to present himself as a person who believed in the Age of Enlightenment, he might want a tailored portrait. Maybe styled as a painting. Only my Wacom isn't compatible with Windows 10, plus I managed to lose my stylus!
Last year's pictures! 2015-2016 School Year - 3rd Grade
