Submitted by Gentleman John on Fri, 2007-01-12 13:30.
I'm all for games that teach kids to spell. there are enough adults who can't, and I see most of their mistakes at work.
However, in response to Decreased, why shouldn't guile work just as well for a warrior as it should for a wizard. While it could be argued that warriors don't use spells, and wizards don't use swords (we have accepted that one for a long time with D&D), intelligence can be used by either. This would mean that Swords and Spelling could need up to three different mechanics: one for beating up monsters with swords, one for defeating them with magic, and one for using intelligence to outwit them. Otherwise, you could have characters treading on each other's toes too much.
I'm not sure you can do that much with scrabble letters.
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I'm all for games that teach kids to spell. there are enough adults who can't, and I see most of their mistakes at work.
However, in response to Decreased, why shouldn't guile work just as well for a warrior as it should for a wizard. While it could be argued that warriors don't use spells, and wizards don't use swords (we have accepted that one for a long time with D&D), intelligence can be used by either. This would mean that Swords and Spelling could need up to three different mechanics: one for beating up monsters with swords, one for defeating them with magic, and one for using intelligence to outwit them. Otherwise, you could have characters treading on each other's toes too much.
I'm not sure you can do that much with scrabble letters.