Hero Kids Term 4

Another term, another group of excited Grade 2 and 3 kids to play Hero Kids with!

All set up.

Here is our party line-up this time:

• Mary, the Warrior
• Jay, the Knight
• Jhon the Whip, the Warlock
• Emma the Healer
• Arrow the Archer

Three of the students have played Hero Kids with me earlier this year, and two are new. I consider that a good ratio. We are playing Curse of the Shadow Walkers, chosen largely because our Warlock already showed an interest in wolves. I finally got around to printing and laminating a plain square battle-mat (generated from this great site), designed to fit the miniatures that come with Hero Kids. We spent most of the session colouring and cutting out our paper miniatures. We reinforced our minis with card that we glued onto the backs of them before folding.

Ready for Adventure!

Our sessions are only 40 minutes, minus getting to the venue, collecting my wandering players, remembering all of the paperwork etc., so this adventure might take a while to get through. Five players means that they are quite a strong group, so I'm going to have to bump the difficulty up a bit. On their first skill check, only 2 out of 5 of them managed to pass a dexterity check - the others were set to 'bruised' health status. It's good for them to realise this early on that their healer is going to be super useful.

I was brainstorming with another colleague who teaches in the senior primary and he suggested the idea of a combined Juniors-Seniors club next year. We could train the senior/experienced kids up to be GMs and let them run small parties of juniors. I love this idea, it's just a case of logistics as currently Junior and Senior clubs run on different days. In any case, it's promising to have another staff member on board as my Grade 3 children started asking if Hero Kids is available as a club in the Senior Primary.