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Before the game begins, each player (including the referee) writes a number of words with multiple morphemes on note cards. These words are then physically cut into individual morphemes, shuffled, and dealt to the players. The players then combine the morphemes together to create spells that they'll use to overcome the challenges, which are created by rolling a d10 and then 2d10 twice, so you ending up creating something like a "Magic Resistant Saw Rune."

To overcome a challenge, the players roll a d10. The higher the roll, the better. They gain bonuses to their roll if their spells addresses the Type and Threat that composes the challenge (in my example, Magic Resistant is the Type and Saw Rune is the Threat), as well as if the spell is composed of more than two morphemes (+1 per morpheme after the 1st). The trick is that you're likely to expend your morphemes as you use them, so you need to manage them over 5 challenges.

You can also "purchase" powerful morphemes (words like "ultra," "arrow," or "meteor") by discarding two morphemes from your hand. In any case, you graduate if you make it through all five challenges without expending all your morphemes before the end of the final challenge.

You're not really going to do much roleplaying with this game. It's more of a goofy cooperative word puzzle, like if you played #CodeNames with roles. Still, it seems like it could be a good time.

@Tim_Eagon #ItsMorphemeTime