I'm thinking of adapting a computer game (
www.popcap.com - Bookworm Adventures) into a table-top game for my (early grade school aged) kids. In Bookworm Adventures, you fight monsters by making words using scrabble-style tiles. The larger the word, the more damage you do to the monster. The game has magic items, such as a "Bow of XYZ" that grants more damage when you make words using those letters.
The video game is single player, but I was thinking of adapting it to be table-top, multiplayer. They players would work together to defeat the monsters.
Each player would have a 16 random scrabble tiles in front of them, 4x4 grid. When it's a players turn, she can spell out a word using those tiles. Then, she has to add up the points on the tiles to score damage against the monster's hit points (no rolling to hit). Used letters are discarded and replaced by new random ones.
I think this could be cool for my kids, making it fun to work on spelling skills as well as math skills. And the co-operative mode would be a nice change. Not sure how to handle the monsters attacks though. Just use dice? Hmmm...
Is there already something like this on the market? What do you think?
Thanks,
MilwaukeeJoe