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shannon_aIt was a busy weekend.
Saturday was gaming. Although I decided to end my frequently futile attempts to run my Burning Wheel campaign, Donald, Mary, Kevin, maybe Dave S., and I have decided to try out a campaign-style board game. I put out some options, Mary added Time Stories, and then we voted:
1. SEAFALL, 14
2. Time Stories, 13
2. Pandemic Legacy Season 1, 13
4. PACG: Rise of the Runelords, 12
4. Charterstone, 12
6. PACG: Rise of the Runelords, 11
All pretty close, but we decided to try out SeaFall on Saturday. It's a 4X Legacy game by Rob Daviau with plenty of American influences (which seems to be one of the things that put eurogamers off, the other being poor development).
I was certainly leery the first time I went to rip a card up, when I didn't know if this would be a successful, continuing game, but I verified with everyone that they were having fun and enjoying the campaign and then rip I did.
Overall, we had fun. There was some great exploration, which is particularly fun because you get to mark up what you find on the map, some fun dice chucking (with one horrible result for me: blank, blank, blank, blank, blank, success — which sank my ship, and which was very unlikely given there are two blanks on each six-sided die), and some interesting storytelling.
From the one play of the beginning set rules, I don't think SeaFall is a great game, but it's a good game that gains weight through its Legacy elements, and I'm looking forward to how that plays out.
This was just the prologue, with changes to the map, but no long-term success or failure for us as players. It was looking like six weeks until our second game, but we managed to slot in a special game on May 5th, just before K. and I go on our family vacation. So, we should get to reinforce our knowledge of the rules pretty quickly.
Sunday was visiting. My mom, Bob, and Rob came up to see us and celebrate K. and my's birthday. For some reason the south campus area was jammed on Sunday (I think there was something going on at the stadium), so we headed out immediately for an early dinner at Chevy's.
There was much enjoyable talking and eating, some margaritas, and then we came home for cake.
It was great seeing everyone.
I did minor walking on the weekend. Nothing big, but I wanted to get out and move both days, rather than just staying home while people came to me.
So I walked Strawberry Creek a bit before gaming, then up in the hills afterward, then I walked in the hills again after lunch on Sunday.
However my other main activity of the weekend (and one that consumed both evenings, plus Sunday before folks showed up) was studying. I'm auditing a Bitcoin programming course on Tuesday and Wednesday, as part of Chris' and my continued attempt to collect blockchain knowledge that we can disseminate, but then I was asked if I could help TA it too.
I was happy to, as I've got two or three years of Bitcoin knowledge and tech writing under my belt at this point, but it turned out to be more challenging than I expected.
First up, it's taught in Python, which is a programming language I don't know.
Second, that meant that I should really be familiar with as much of the course's exercises as possible.
So my studying consisted of flipping back and forth between a book on Python and working on the exercises. As of this moment, on Monday evening, I'm 7 chapters into the book (out of 16, but I probably won't finish it) and 6 exercises sets into the course (out of 8, and that I hope to finish before the second day of the course).
Whew. Exhausting; I'm tired out even before getting up early enough to be in the city by 8.30 on Tuesday.
And we'll see if my studying was good enough to actually offer meaningful help to others tomorrow.
Two more days of busyness to come.
Saturday was gaming. Although I decided to end my frequently futile attempts to run my Burning Wheel campaign, Donald, Mary, Kevin, maybe Dave S., and I have decided to try out a campaign-style board game. I put out some options, Mary added Time Stories, and then we voted:
1. SEAFALL, 14
2. Time Stories, 13
2. Pandemic Legacy Season 1, 13
4. PACG: Rise of the Runelords, 12
4. Charterstone, 12
6. PACG: Rise of the Runelords, 11
All pretty close, but we decided to try out SeaFall on Saturday. It's a 4X Legacy game by Rob Daviau with plenty of American influences (which seems to be one of the things that put eurogamers off, the other being poor development).
I was certainly leery the first time I went to rip a card up, when I didn't know if this would be a successful, continuing game, but I verified with everyone that they were having fun and enjoying the campaign and then rip I did.
Overall, we had fun. There was some great exploration, which is particularly fun because you get to mark up what you find on the map, some fun dice chucking (with one horrible result for me: blank, blank, blank, blank, blank, success — which sank my ship, and which was very unlikely given there are two blanks on each six-sided die), and some interesting storytelling.
From the one play of the beginning set rules, I don't think SeaFall is a great game, but it's a good game that gains weight through its Legacy elements, and I'm looking forward to how that plays out.
This was just the prologue, with changes to the map, but no long-term success or failure for us as players. It was looking like six weeks until our second game, but we managed to slot in a special game on May 5th, just before K. and I go on our family vacation. So, we should get to reinforce our knowledge of the rules pretty quickly.
Sunday was visiting. My mom, Bob, and Rob came up to see us and celebrate K. and my's birthday. For some reason the south campus area was jammed on Sunday (I think there was something going on at the stadium), so we headed out immediately for an early dinner at Chevy's.
There was much enjoyable talking and eating, some margaritas, and then we came home for cake.
It was great seeing everyone.
I did minor walking on the weekend. Nothing big, but I wanted to get out and move both days, rather than just staying home while people came to me.
So I walked Strawberry Creek a bit before gaming, then up in the hills afterward, then I walked in the hills again after lunch on Sunday.
However my other main activity of the weekend (and one that consumed both evenings, plus Sunday before folks showed up) was studying. I'm auditing a Bitcoin programming course on Tuesday and Wednesday, as part of Chris' and my continued attempt to collect blockchain knowledge that we can disseminate, but then I was asked if I could help TA it too.
I was happy to, as I've got two or three years of Bitcoin knowledge and tech writing under my belt at this point, but it turned out to be more challenging than I expected.
First up, it's taught in Python, which is a programming language I don't know.
Second, that meant that I should really be familiar with as much of the course's exercises as possible.
So my studying consisted of flipping back and forth between a book on Python and working on the exercises. As of this moment, on Monday evening, I'm 7 chapters into the book (out of 16, but I probably won't finish it) and 6 exercises sets into the course (out of 8, and that I hope to finish before the second day of the course).
Whew. Exhausting; I'm tired out even before getting up early enough to be in the city by 8.30 on Tuesday.
And we'll see if my studying was good enough to actually offer meaningful help to others tomorrow.
Two more days of busyness to come.