So as we continue chugging along to the demo near the end of the month, I've started hooking up the healing aspects of the game, because you gotta be able to heal yourself in combat, right?
So during the game, if you start any word with
It will heal you based on the word length. You will also deal damage to your opponent, but at a reduced amount, since you are spending the heal's "magic word" energy to heal you instead of deal damage.
Thus the game becomes a dynamic - do you waste all the heals off the board right away, or do you strategically hold back letters to use? What about your special skills that work with those letters? Do you hold those too? It becomes a game of cat and mouse with cherry picking letters if you desire.